Alberto García
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.
POSTS
Subcluster allocation for qcow2 images
In previous blog posts I talked about QEMU’s qcow2 file format and how to make it faster. This post gives an overview of how the data is structured i
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The status of WebKitGTK in Debian
Like all other major browser engines, WebKit is a project that evolves very fast with releases every few weeks containing new features and security fi
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“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...
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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
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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...
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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
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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...
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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
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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
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