Proposals

Alex Williamson

Alex Williamson

Red Hat

Biography

Alex is a Senior Software Engineer working for Red Hat from his home in Fort Collins, Colorado. Alex has a long history of Linux kernel and open source virtualization work with over 10 years as an engineer with HP’s open source division. Alex is currently working on KVM/QEMU-based virtualization with a focus on PCI device assignment.

Proposals for this user

* VFIO: PCI device assignment breaks free of KVM

VFIO allows exporting PCI devices to userspace drivers. Discussion of using this interface for assigning physical devices to virtual machines and obstacles remaining for integration. (slides)
Virtualization 07/28/2011
Alex Williamson