Name: Understanding Your Hypervisor: Why Open Source Matters - Ryo Takakura, Hirokazu Takahashi, Koichiro Den & Akiko Yano VA Linux Systems Japan
Start: 2026-05-13T14:10:00+0900
End: 2026-05-13T14:40:00+0900

Understanding Your Hypervisor: Why Open Source Matters - Ryo Takakura, Hirokazu Takahashi, Koichiro Den & Akiko Yano VA Linux Systems Japan

Wednesday May 13, 2026 14:10 - 14:40 JST

Estate I + II

This session showcases how an open-source hypervisor like Xen can be analyzed and optimized in practice. By examining workload behavior in Linux guests together with Xen scheduler behavior, it highlights how an open-source stack enables informed and reliable performance tuning. The talk demonstrates Xen as a practical choice for environments where understanding, validating, and improving system behavior matter.

Speakers

Akiko Yano

Engineer, VA Linux Systems Japan

Akiko Yano is a Cloud Infrastructure Expert with a background in networking. She is a contributor to a technical blog, where she shares her insights into the Linux kernel.

Ryo Takakura

Kernel Engineer, VA Linux Systems Japan K.K.

Linux kernel enthusiast with a recent focus on Xen and a growing interest in hypervisor technologies.

Hirokazu Takahashi

General Manager, VA Linux Sytems Japan K.K.

I am a systems engineer with a long history of developing Unix, RTOS, Linux, and hypervisors. My primary contributions to the Linux kernel focus on enhancing system flexibility and performance, specifically through the development of Zero-copy NFS and memory hot-plug features. I am... Read More →