Igalia - Open Source Consultancy and Development

One of the founding members of Igalia, Alberto loves computing since he got his first ZX Spectrum in the early nineties.

He discovered GNU/Linux at university and immediately became interested in the free software philosophy.

Besides computers he also likes travelling, cinema and swimming at the beach, but his greatest passion is music: he has hundreds of records and loves going to concerts.

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Nov 16, 2017

“Improving the performance of the qcow2 format” at KVM Forum 2017

I was in Prague last month for the 2017 edition of the KVM Forum. There I gave a talk about some of the work that I’ve been doing this year...

Feb 8, 2017

QEMU and the qcow2 metadata checks

When choosing a disk image format for your virtual machine one of the factors to take into considerations is its I/O performance. In this post I’ll ta

May 24, 2016

I/O bursts with QEMU 2.6

QEMU 2.6 was released a few days ago. One new feature that I have been working on is the new way to configure I/O limits in disk drives to allow...

Dec 17, 2015

Improving disk I/O performance in QEMU 2.5 with the qcow2 L2 cache

QEMU 2.5 has just been released, with a lot of new features. As with the previous release, we have also created a video changelog. I plan to write a

Aug 14, 2015

I/O limits for disk groups in QEMU 2.4

QEMU 2.4.0 has just been released, and among many other things it comes with some of the stuff I have been working on lately. In this blog post I am...

Nov 28, 2012

QEMU and open hardware: SPEC and FMC TDC

Working with open hardware Some weeks ago at LinuxCon EU in Barcelona I talked about how to use QEMU to improve the reliability of device drivers. At

Nov 5, 2012

Igalia at LinuxCon Europe

I came to Barcelona with a few other Igalians this week for LinuxCon, the Embedded Linux Conference and the KVM Forum. We are sponsoring the event and

Oct 3, 2012

IndustryPack, QEMU and LinuxCon

IndustryPack drivers for Linux In the past months we have been working at Igalia to give Linux support to IndustryPack devices. IndustryPack modules a

Jul 28, 2012