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Xen 4.0 roadmap released
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Monday, 31 August 2009 21:37

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