NVIDIA GPU Passthrough (Tesla V100) on SLES

This is an instruction to setup your NVIDIA V100 so you can use it in your virtual machine. HOST OS is OpenSUSE tumbleweed, guest could be anything you want. Make sure the kernel is newer than 4.10 in HOST.

OVS-DPDK: A Practical (and Kernel-Aware) Setup Guide

This document walks through installing DPDK + Open vSwitch (OVS) from packages (when available), enabling OVS-DPDK, creating vhost-user ports, and attaching VMs via QEMU command line or libvirt. It also lists common issues you will likely hit in real deployments.

Intel Optane DCPMM with QEMU vNVDIMM for KVM Guest

We are using Intel Optane DataCenter Persistent Memory Module as the NVDIMM device here. Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory (DCPMM or PMEM) is a new generation of nonvolatile memory (NVM) technology that is fast enough for processors to access stored data directly, without high latency and without a tremendous reduction in performance

vfio-ccw dasd ipl support

This feature could support booting from vfio-ccw dasd devices. It is enabled in our SLE12SP5, SLE15SP1 and SLES15SP2

This feature is actually using a real dasd for ipl device based on vfio-ccw bus. So it is not like using a vfio-cow qcow2 or just use this dasd device as a storage block.

Maintaining QEMU in SUSE and openSUSE: A Developer’s Guide

As a qemu developer of SUSE and openSUSE, I would like to share some information about maintaining the QEMU package, so you could join us to maintain it together.