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 mbur...@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? -- Alex Bennée Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
