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Xen 3.3.0 Released, Many Virt Features

Written by Michael Larabel in Virtualization on 22 August 2008 at 12:36 PM EDT. 1 Comment

XenSource today has announced the release of Xen 3.3.0. This update to this popular open-source virtual machine adds power management support to the hypervisor (the C and P states), HVM emulation domains, PVGrub, improved PV performance, improvements to the shadow page-table algorithm. hardware-assisted paging enhancements, CPUID feature leveling, PVSCSI drivers, HVM frame-buffer optimizations, device pass-through enhancements, full x86 real-mode emulation for HVM guests on Intel VT, and finally a new QEMU merge against upstream development. Xen 3.3.0 also has other changes for the x86 and IA64 versions. The mailing list release announcement can be found at XenSource.

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