Re: Any interest in the QEMU community attending DVCon Europe October 2024?

[Alex Bennée]

Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Over recent years there has been a push to make QEMU more flexible for
> EDA type applications. As long time developers know there are a number
> of downstream forks of QEMU which have their own solutions for modelling
> heterogeneous systems and integrating with hardware models. The work by
> Philippe, Anton and others to build a single binary with composable
> hardware is aiming at least to solve the heterogeneous modelling problem
> in the upstream project.
>
> While we do discuss these "TCG" topics during KVM Forum the project may
> benefit from doing some outreach at some conferences where simulation
> and emulation are the primary focus.
>
> The Design and Verification Conference & Exhibition Europe (DVCon
> Europe) is the premier European technical conference on system,
> software, design, verification, validation and integration. This year it
> will be on the 15-16 October 2024 in Munich. See: https://dvcon-europe.org/
>
> There have been a number of papers and workshops on QEMU/KVM topics over
> the years. Unfortunately the website doesn't provide slides or videos of
> the talks but topics have included how QEMU can be used as a fast
> instruction simulator alongside things such as SystemC models or
> virtualisation can be leveraged to accelerate full system emulation.
>
> The main tracks are fairly academic where engineering and research
> papers are submitted and if accepted can then be presented at the
> conference. This is probably over the top for QEMU related stuff but
> their is a tutorial track (deadline for Abstracts 1st July) which could
> be a good target for a introduction to the features and capabilities of
> the QEMU upstream. I suspect there would be interest in the wider
> modelling community to find out more about how to use the upstream
> project directly.
>
> There is a co-located "SystemC Evolution Day" on the 17th where there
> might well be a strong overlap between SystemC users and QEMU. Mark
> Burton is involved with that and is keen for proposals talking about
> integrating SystemC models with QEMU. Please send a message to
> mburton@quicinc.com if you're interested.
>
> So is anyone interested?
>
> Should we do more within the community to network and discuss our plans
> for QEMU as a modelling solution?
>
> Any other thoughts?

Gentle ping, any interest?

-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro