The Future of Virtualization in Kubernetes: What's Next for KubeVirt - Vladik Romanovsky, Red Hat

Don't miss out! Join us at our next Flagship Conference: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (23-26 March, 2026). Connect with our current graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Learn more at https://kubecon.io The Future of Virtualization in Kubernetes: What's Next for KubeVirt - Vladik Romanovsky, Red Hat KubeVirt is rapidly evolving. In the past year, we've introduced many new features, such as decentralized live migration with major stability improvements, VM SWAP support, seamless TCP migration with Passt, and enhancements to the VM rollout mechanism. We added initial support for Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) - and much more. Looking ahead, we're exploring support for multiple VMMs beyond QEMU/KVM, expanding into Confidential Computing across architectures, and introducing a new plugin system. As part of our journey toward CNCF graduation, we’re refining how we plan and deliver features through a new Enhancements process to improve roadmap clarity and community focus. We’ll also discuss ongoing challenges with Kubernetes’ native resource quota system and how rethinking it could better serve virtualized workloads. Join us to see how KubeVirt is shaping the future of virtualization in Kubernetes.