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Only just as Xen had release their 3.4 release back in June they have now started on their roadmap to version 4.0 of the Xen Hypervisor.
New great features include :
- RDMA Live Migration Support
- Dom0 kernel in Linux 2.6.30 or later
- Dom0 support for Marvell 6480 disk driver
- Pass through USB-Controllers/Devices for PV Guests
- Fault Tolerance - Project Remus and/or Kemari
- Monitor, Limit, Control network traffic coming at DomUs
- Internationalization / Unicode Support
- Configure Virtual Bridge like Real Switch (e.g. Control VLAN, port status)
- VLan tagging per NIC in the VM Config File
- Virtual Ethernet Switch
- Physical Xen boot/install support via native UEFI (pUEFI) and virtual UEFI (vUEFI) support
- Limit I/O for individual disks of VM (similar to credit scheduler weight)
- Dynamic Memory Management for Overcommiting RAM
- PCI CGA Passthrough for VT-d (vendor cards like Nvidia, AIT, etc)
- Full AMD IOMMU Support
- Online resizing of DomU Disks
- Cross compliling Xen and Modular Builds
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