DataSheet Proposal for Xen 3.3 Hypervisor Published
August 19th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
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Stephen Spector published a post yesterday on the Xen blog featuring a proposed data sheet (PDF) for the upcoming Xen 3.3 release, which we said was in final testing stage in the beginning of this month.
Update 26 August: Xen 3.3.0 is available for download.
The complete list of new features in Xen 3.3 includes:
Performance and Scalability
CPUID Levelling Shadow 3 Page Table Optimizations EPT/NPT 2MB Page Support Virtual Framebuffer Support for HVM Guests PVSCSI — SCSI Support for PV Guests Full 16-bit Emulation on Intel VT Support for memory overcommit allowing more VMs per physical machine for some workloads
Security
PVGRUB Secure Replacement for PYGRUB IO Emulation “stub domains†for HVM IO Green Computing Enhanced C & P State Power Management Graphics Support VT-d Device Pass-Through Support
Miscellaneous
Upgrade QEMU Version Multi-Queue Support for Modern NICs Removal of Domain Lock for PV Guests Message Signalled Interrupts Greatly improved precision for time-sensitive SMP VMs
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