Xen 3.1 is Available for Download

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May 20, 20071 min

In case you missed the news, the Xen team was excited to announce that it had released Xen 3.1 for download. The team said the release represented a major milestone in the Xen project. This version contains performance and stability enhancements, as well as additional features for all architectures and a brand new management API. Highlights of the release include: XenAPI 1.0 Support - Which includes XML configur

In case you missed the news, the Xen team was excited to announce that it had released Xen 3.1 for download. The team said the release represented a major milestone in the Xen project. This version contains performance and stability enhancements, as well as additional features for all architectures and a brand new management API.

Highlights of the release include:

  • XenAPI 1.0 Support – Which includes XML configuration files for virtual machines, VM life-cycle management operations and secure on- or off-box XML-RPC with bindings for many languages

  • Basic save/restore/migrate support for Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM).

  • Dynamic memory control for HVM guests

  • 32-on-64 paravirtualized guest support (run PAE PV VMs on a 64-bit Xen)

  • Blktap copy-on-write disk support

You can download it, here.