Xen 3.3.0
Welcome to the Xen 3.3.0 download page! This release contains architectural improvements and new user-visible features including:
- Power management (P & C states) in the hypervisor
- HVM emulation domains (qemu-on-minios) for better scalability, performance and security
- PVGrub: boot PV kernels using real GRUB inside the PV domain
- Better PV performance: domain lock removed from pagetable-update paths
- Shadow3: optimisations to make this the best shadow pagetable algorithm yet, making HVM performance better than ever
- Hardware Assisted Paging enhancements: 2MB page support for better TLB locality
- CPUID feature levelling: allows safe domain migration across systems with different CPU models
- PVSCSI drivers for SCSI access direct into PV guests
- HVM framebuffer optimisations: scan for framebuffer updates more efficiently
- Device passthrough enhancements
- Full x86 real-mode emulation for HVM guests on Intel VT: supports a much wider range of legacy guest OSes
- New qemu merge with upstream development
- Many other changes in both x86 and IA64 ports
- RAS features: cpu and memory offlining
- Power management: improved frequency/voltage controls and deep-sleep
- support. Scheduler and timers optimised for peak power savings.
- Support for the Viridian (Hyper-V) enlightenment interface
- Many other changes in both x86 and IA64 ports
- Xen 3.3 Datasheet