2.0 -//Pentabarf//Schedule//EN PUBLISH QHGCZY@@pretalx.com -QHGCZY Keynote: KVM en en 20261112T084000 20261112T091000 003000

Keynote: KVM

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/QHGCZY/ 1 Paolo Bonzini PUBLISH JQRUKK@@pretalx.com -JQRUKK Hidden in Plain Sight: The Virtualization Roadmap Supporting NVIDIA Superchips en en 20261112T091500 20261112T093500 002000

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Virtualization Roadmap Supporting NVIDIA Superchips

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/JQRUKK/ 1 Alex Williamson Ankit Agrawal PUBLISH BFHGKB@@pretalx.com -BFHGKB NVIDIA vGPU: The Next Phase of Upstreaming en en 20261112T093500 20261112T095500 002000

NVIDIA vGPU: The Next Phase of Upstreaming

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/BFHGKB/ 1 Zhi Wang Alok Kumar PUBLISH VCNXGV@@pretalx.com -VCNXGV Virtualizing CXL Type-2 devices: what changes beyond PCI passthrough en en 20261112T095500 20261112T102500 003000

Virtualizing CXL Type-2 devices: what changes beyond PCI passthrough

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/VCNXGV/ 1 Manish Honap PUBLISH ATSSVN@@pretalx.com -ATSSVN QEMU/KVM: Live migration across heterogeneous hosts on ARM64 en en 20261112T105500 20261112T112500 003000

QEMU/KVM: Live migration across heterogeneous hosts on ARM64

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/ATSSVN/ 1 Khushit Shah Sandesh Singh Patel PUBLISH WXARUL@@pretalx.com -WXARUL ... and NV3 for all (an attempt at accelerating nested virtualisation on arm64) en en 20261112T112500 20261112T115500 003000

... and NV3 for all (an attempt at accelerating nested virtualisation on arm64)

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/WXARUL/ 1 Marc Zyngier PUBLISH 9FBPKH@@pretalx.com -9FBPKH Bringing ARM64 Support to the MSHV Accelerator in QEMU en en 20261112T115500 20261112T122500 003000

Bringing ARM64 Support to the MSHV Accelerator in QEMU

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/9FBPKH/ 1 Aastha Rawat Anirudh Rayabharam PUBLISH MGJJDZ@@pretalx.com -MGJJDZ Bring your own firmware reloaded and what IGVM can do for you en en 20261112T134500 20261112T141500 003000

Bring your own firmware reloaded and what IGVM can do for you

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/MGJJDZ/ 1 Ani Sinha Gerd Hoffmann PUBLISH K7UYA9@@pretalx.com -K7UYA9 AWS Nitro Enclaves in QEMU en en 20261112T141500 20261112T144500 003000

AWS Nitro Enclaves in QEMU

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/K7UYA9/ 1 Alexander Graf PUBLISH VKVWE8@@pretalx.com -VKVWE8 AF_VSOCK: Namespaces, Zerocopy, and Beyond en en 20261112T151500 20261112T154500 003000

AF_VSOCK: Namespaces, Zerocopy, and Beyond

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/VKVWE8/ 1 Stefano Garzarella Bobby Eshleman PUBLISH MSMPYU@@pretalx.com -MSMPYU Dpio-af: a rust-native framework for building disaggregated data planes en en 20261112T154500 20261112T161500 003000

Dpio-af: a rust-native framework for building disaggregated data planes

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/MSMPYU/ 1 Adin Scannell PUBLISH XU7ZP7@@pretalx.com -XU7ZP7 In-place Conversion Support for Confidential VMs en en 20261112T091500 20261112T093500 002000

In-place Conversion Support for Confidential VMs

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/XU7ZP7/ 2 Michael Roth PUBLISH XZNHGA@@pretalx.com -XZNHGA State of the State: Tracking Memory Conversions in guest_memfd en en 20261112T093500 20261112T095500 002000

State of the State: Tracking Memory Conversions in guest_memfd

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/XZNHGA/ 2 Ackerley Tng PUBLISH QQWNVD@@pretalx.com -QQWNVD Enabling live migration of TDX guests en en 20261112T095500 20261112T102500 003000

Enabling live migration of TDX guests

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/QQWNVD/ 2 Kishen Maloor Rick Edgecombe PUBLISH HW9V9Y@@pretalx.com -HW9V9Y virtio-vm: Paravirtual KVM/VFIO device en en 20261112T105500 20261112T112500 003000

virtio-vm: Paravirtual KVM/VFIO device

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/HW9V9Y/ 2 James Houghton Andrei Vagin Venkatesh Srinivas PUBLISH LVJBQ7@@pretalx.com -LVJBQ7 A vhost-user-blk storage proxy for Firecracker microVMs: a local NVMe write-back tier between the guest and Ceph en en 20261112T112500 20261112T115500 003000

A vhost-user-blk storage proxy for Firecracker microVMs: a local NVMe write-back tier between the guest and Ceph

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/LVJBQ7/ 2 Piotr Bejda PUBLISH TKPCUV@@pretalx.com -TKPCUV Dynamic disk IO Thread Scaling for QEMU with the io-thread-controller en en 20261112T115500 20261112T122500 003000

Dynamic disk IO Thread Scaling for QEMU with the io-thread-controller

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/TKPCUV/ 2 Thanos Makatos PUBLISH KDRWGB@@pretalx.com -KDRWGB GPU paravirtualization: A perspective from QEMU en en 20261112T134500 20261112T141500 003000

GPU paravirtualization: A perspective from QEMU

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/KDRWGB/ 2 Akihiko Odaki PUBLISH ZJ33RV@@pretalx.com -ZJ33RV Virtualization vs. simulation: use cases and technical challenges en en 20261112T141500 20261112T144500 003000

Virtualization vs. simulation: use cases and technical challenges

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/ZJ33RV/ 2 James Nutaro Christian Koertje PUBLISH AWM8WP@@pretalx.com -AWM8WP Scaling CPU Overcommit in KVM with Dynamic MWAIT Interception and Coroutine vCPUs en en 20261112T151500 20261112T154500 003000

Scaling CPU Overcommit in KVM with Dynamic MWAIT Interception and Coroutine vCPUs

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/AWM8WP/ 2 Zhimin Feng Xiangfeng Cai Ying Fang PUBLISH QPSFWD@@pretalx.com -QPSFWD QEMU memory tiering en en 20261112T154500 20261112T161500 003000

QEMU memory tiering

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/QPSFWD/ 2 Peter Xu PUBLISH FQQWZN@@pretalx.com -FQQWZN Keynote: QEMU en en 20261113T084000 20261113T091000 003000

Keynote: QEMU

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/FQQWZN/ 1 Alex Bennée PUBLISH QWDHGG@@pretalx.com -QWDHGG KVM planes and Virtualization-Based Security: the sum is greater than the parts en en 20261113T091500 20261113T093500 002000

KVM planes and Virtualization-Based Security: the sum is greater than the parts

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/QWDHGG/ 1 Paolo Bonzini PUBLISH MLPKFB@@pretalx.com -MLPKFB Virtual Secure Mode on KVM Planes en en 20261113T093500 20261113T095500 002000

Virtual Secure Mode on KVM Planes

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/MLPKFB/ 1 Sriram Nambakam James Bottomley PUBLISH ZB3GWA@@pretalx.com -ZB3GWA COCONUT-SVSM on KVM Planes: Boarding Completed? en en 20261113T095500 20261113T102500 003000

COCONUT-SVSM on KVM Planes: Boarding Completed?

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/ZB3GWA/ 1 Jörg Rödel Melody (Huibo) Wang PUBLISH B7ZLZ7@@pretalx.com -B7ZLZ7 KVM memory management from scratch: the gmap rewrite en en 20261113T105500 20261113T112500 003000

KVM memory management from scratch: the gmap rewrite

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/B7ZLZ7/ 1 Claudio Imbrenda PUBLISH LGVNHA@@pretalx.com -LGVNHA An Introduction to the AMD Root Guest en en 20261113T112500 20261113T115500 003000

An Introduction to the AMD Root Guest

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/LGVNHA/ 1 Tom Lendacky David Kaplan PUBLISH BY8NR3@@pretalx.com -BY8NR3 Artificial Intuition: Lessons Learned From Vibe-Auditing KVM en en 20261113T115500 20261113T122500 003000

Artificial Intuition: Lessons Learned From Vibe-Auditing KVM

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/BY8NR3/ 1 Stefan Teodorescu Marcel Busch PUBLISH UYWQ79@@pretalx.com -UYWQ79 Enabling Confidential VMs: Updates from the Coconut SVSM Project en en 20261113T134500 20261113T141500 003000

Enabling Confidential VMs: Updates from the Coconut SVSM Project

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/UYWQ79/ 1 Oliver Steffen Luigi Leonardi PUBLISH CFSAUG@@pretalx.com -CFSAUG One ring, one crash: breaking hypervisors from the guest en en 20261113T151500 20261113T154500 003000

One ring, one crash: breaking hypervisors from the guest

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/CFSAUG/ 1 Anatol Belski PUBLISH 7PDWPC@@pretalx.com -7PDWPC Backend-Assisted Observability for Diagnosing Windows VM Failures in Cloud Environments en en 20261113T154500 20261113T161500 003000

Backend-Assisted Observability for Diagnosing Windows VM Failures in Cloud Environments

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/7PDWPC/ 1 Zhengrong Li PUBLISH ZUV9VA@@pretalx.com -ZUV9VA Securing the VMM Against Speculative Attacks Using x86 PKRU en en 20261113T161500 20261113T164500 003000

Securing the VMM Against Speculative Attacks Using x86 PKRU

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/ZUV9VA/ 1 Jacky Li Mingwei Zhang PUBLISH NYBVPU@@pretalx.com -NYBVPU Testing Device Passthrough: An Introduction to VFIO selftests and libvfio en en 20261113T091500 20261113T093500 002000

Testing Device Passthrough: An Introduction to VFIO selftests and libvfio

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/NYBVPU/ 2 David Matlack PUBLISH CEUSUL@@pretalx.com -CEUSUL Turning an ethernet controller into a DMA engine for VFIO selftests en en 20261113T093500 20261113T095500 002000

Turning an ethernet controller into a DMA engine for VFIO selftests

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/CEUSUL/ 2 Josh Hilke PUBLISH HGLBEK@@pretalx.com -HGLBEK Building a virtio-serial FPGA device en en 20261113T095500 20261113T102500 003000

Building a virtio-serial FPGA device

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/HGLBEK/ 2 Stefan Hajnoczi PUBLISH 7NLBGB@@pretalx.com -7NLBGB NVIDIA vGPU: Towards zero-copy live migration en en 20261113T105500 20261113T112500 003000

NVIDIA vGPU: Towards zero-copy live migration

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/7NLBGB/ 2 Vinayak Kale PUBLISH J7SQCV@@pretalx.com -J7SQCV Optimized Switchover Timing for Live Migration of Memory-Intensive Workloads en en 20261113T112500 20261113T115500 003000

Optimized Switchover Timing for Live Migration of Memory-Intensive Workloads

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/J7SQCV/ 2 Aseef Imran PUBLISH BCYMLB@@pretalx.com -BCYMLB EPT-Based CoW and Incremental Snapshot for Agentic Sandbox Memory Oversubscription en en 20261113T115500 20261113T122500 003000

EPT-Based CoW and Incremental Snapshot for Agentic Sandbox Memory Oversubscription

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/BCYMLB/ 2 Hao Hong Zhengyu Zhao Issac Hai PUBLISH XKYJWR@@pretalx.com -XKYJWR virtio-win drivers and QEMU/KVM Windows support weather report en en 20261113T134500 20261113T141500 003000

virtio-win drivers and QEMU/KVM Windows support weather report

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/XKYJWR/ 2 Yan Vugenfirer PUBLISH KP7PP9@@pretalx.com -KP7PP9 Client virtualisation with QEMU on Windows and macOS en en 20261113T141500 20261113T144500 003000

Client virtualisation with QEMU on Windows and macOS

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/KP7PP9/ 2 Mohamed Mediouni PUBLISH EDDF3C@@pretalx.com -EDDF3C Hardware-Accelerated Cross-Architecture Virtual Machines en en 20261113T151500 20261113T154500 003000

Hardware-Accelerated Cross-Architecture Virtual Machines

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/EDDF3C/ 2 Steffen Eiden PUBLISH LXYZ39@@pretalx.com -LXYZ39 From Single-binary to Heterogeneous emulation en en 20261113T154500 20261113T161500 003000

From Single-binary to Heterogeneous emulation

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/LXYZ39/ 2 Pierrick Bouvier PUBLISH UGZ9WN@@pretalx.com -UGZ9WN X64Echo: Native-Speed C++ Library Pass-through for QEMU User-Mode en en 20261113T161500 20261113T164500 003000

X64Echo: Native-Speed C++ Library Pass-through for QEMU User-Mode

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2026/talk/UGZ9WN/ 2 Ziyang Zhang