2024-09-22 –, Hall A+B
The advent of the Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) comes with its unique set of opportunities and challenges. Consolidation of control units (CUs) into a single, central computer, implies the potential need for relying on Virtualization for running multiple Operating Systems on a single system.
For QEMU, this means new challenges. In addition of growing to support new paravirtual interfaces required by the Automotive Industry, it also needs to be able to provide optimal data paths for data intensive virtual devices, such as GPUs, NPUs, DSPs, video and media devices. And, at the same time, it needs to offer excellent uptime and accept being encapsulated in a context that guarantees proper spatial and temporal separation between it and other components in the system.
In this talk, I'll detail these challenges and the work we're doing to overcome them while building the Virtualization feature for Automotive Stream Distribution (AutoSD), the distribution maintained by the CentOS Automotive SIG.
Sergio is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. After a tenure in the Virtualization Team, he joined the Automotive Team to help building a car-friendly Virtualization stack for CentOS AutoSD. He's also the maintainer of the microvm machine type in QEMU, main author and maintainer of libkrun (an opinionated VMM written in Rust and based on rust-vmm components) and co-maintainer of various crates from the rust-vmm project.