In this episode, Karsten Hohage talks about QEMU with Helge Deller from SAP and Alex Bennée from Linaro. QEMU, short for “Quick Emulator”, is a virtualization software that can be used to emulate various types of hardware. They discuss the open source aspects of QEMU, how it is used in various aspects of the software development lifecycle, and how it helps the software ecosystem.

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Helge Deller

Helge is head of SAP’s Linux lab, which is responsible for the development, certification and support of SAP products on Linux. And in his spare time, he is a maintainer of the RISC and PA-RISC Linux port and various areas of the Linux kernel. And he contributes to QEMU.  

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helge-deller

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Alex Bennée

Alex is a senior tech lead for virtualization and emulation at Linaro. Over his career, he has worked on devices from one-armed bandits to microwave communication systems.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbennee/

Show Notes:

• QEMU Project
  
  
  
  • Project homepage: http://www.qemu.org
  
  
  
  
  
  • Code repo: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu
  
  
  
  
  
  • Issues: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues
  
  
  
  
  
  • Documentation: https://qemu.readthedocs.io
    
  
  
  
  





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  • QEMU: https://www.qemu.org/
  
  
  
  
  
  • Linaro: https://www.linaro.org/
  
  
  
  
  
  • KVM: https://linux-kvm.org/
  
  
  
  
  
  • PA-RISC: https://parisc.docs.kernel.org/
  
  
  
  
  
  • Alex on GitHub: https://github.com/stsquad
  
  
  
  
  
  • Helge on GitHub: https://github.com/hdeller
    
  
  
  
  





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Host:

Karsten Hohage – Product Expert in Technology and Innovation (T&I)

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karsten-hohage-0180312/

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