KubeVirt Community Meeting 2026-01-14

[Andrew Burden]

2026-01-14 MINUTES

Recording: https://youtu.be/mkd9NeTyCAI 

Attendees: Jan Schintag, Itamar Holder Felix Matouschek Igor Bezukh Edward Haas C A Fillekes, Ph.D. Orel Misan Thomas-David Griedel Federico Fossemo

Introductions:  Welcome everyone to the KubeVirt weekly community meeting

• Join the community:

• Add your organization to ADOPTERS.md

• Follow on Twitter

• Community page

• Join as a Github Project Member

• Follow on Mastodon

• Do we have any new members this week that would like to introduce themselves? 

Schedule Check-in: https://github.com/kubevirt/sig-release/blob/main/releases/v1.8/schedule.md
Upcoming CfP Check-in: https://github.com/kubevirt/community/wiki/Events 

Calendar Check-in: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=kube...@cncf.io

Agenda and Notes:

• Google Summer of Code request for project ideas and mentors: https://groups.google.com/g/kubevirt-dev/c/mKW7WbbPQMk
  
  

Open Floor:

• [aburden] hugetlbfs masked by emptyDir: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/16393

• [iholder] Leveraging the CNCF Slack

• [Harshit] https://github.com/kubevirt/enhancements/pull/122 

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Zoom chat:
00:04:13 Felix: am I supposed to hear someone speaking?

00:04:25 Felix: Ah nice, zoom broken

00:10:28 xpivarc: Something like:

CBOR

API adaptation of generic library

Admission TLS

Declrative Validation

Introduction of component testing

00:10:39 xpivarc: The above is the ideas for GSOC

00:14:20 Harshit Gupta: VEP 97.1 hypervisor feature discovery by vyta · Pull Request #122 · kubevirt/enhancements