Thursday, September 24, 2020

Webinar: KVM Network Performance - Best Practices and Tuning Recommendations

Abstract
Join us for this webinar session to get an overview of the different networking configuration choices running KVM guests on the IBM Z platforms and details to setup and capabilities. It also provides tuning recommendations for the KVM host and KVM guest environment to achieve greater network performance.

Speaker
Dr. Jürgen Dölle, Linux on IBM Z Performance Evaluation

Registration
Register here. You can check the system requirements here.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Replay & Archive
All sessions are recorded. For the archive as well as a replay and handout of this session and all previous webcasts see here.

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

QEMU v5.1 released

QEMU v5.1 is out. Here are the highlights from a KVM on Z perspective:

  • Secure Guest support
  • vfio-ccw: Various enhancements
  • DASD IPL via vfio-ccw is now fully functional (requires Linux kernel 5.8)

For further details, see the Release Notes.