15:44:16 #startmeeting KVM and Virtio Introduction 15:44:16 Meeting started Sat Aug 10 15:44:16 2013 UTC. The chair is jreznik. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 15:44:16 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 15:44:34 sorry for a bit late startmeeting, solving hangouts/beamer issues 15:46:08 Nitesh talks about KVM - overview 15:46:31 QEMU is used in conjunction with KVM 15:47:29 CPU part managed by KVM, QEMU for virt management 15:47:41 #topic KVM internals 15:49:41 #topic Virtion introduction 15:51:14 enables sharing of host network interfaces 15:51:32 flow diagram on the slide 15:51:48 #topic high level virtio architecture 15:51:52 see slide 15:52:27 #topic object hiearchy of the virtio front end 15:58:18 someone is blocking part of the webcam view 15:58:37 nice view of the the back of someone's shoulder 15:58:58 :) 16:00:18 rdieter: better? 16:00:27 jreznik: yay, yes. 16:00:31 thanks for letting me know 16:01:02 #topic code example ;-) 16:02:27 #topic QEMU & Virtio Interaction 16:02:40 see diagram on the slide 16:03:05 Nitesh explains interaction between qemu and virtio 16:09:32 #topic Q/A 16:09:56 Q: do you have any data showing the improvement? 16:10:48 A: should be on linux-kvm.org, on PPC drastically better, userspace/kernelspaces switches, better with vhost 16:11:07 a lot of difference 16:11:58 #endmeeting