Xen development team announces release of Xen 3.2.0

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Jan 17, 20081 min

The Xen Development Team recently announced that the latest version, Xen 3.2.0, has now been officially released. A range of new user-visible features have been provided that include: Xen Security Modules (XSM) ACPI S3 suspend-to-RAM support for the host system Preliminary PCI pass-through support (using appropriate Intel or AMD I/O-virtualisation hardware) Preliminary support for a wider range of bootloaders in

The Xen Development Team recently announced that the latest version, Xen 3.2.0, has now been officially released.

A range of new user-visible features have been provided that include:

  • Xen Security Modules (XSM)
  • ACPI S3 suspend-to-RAM support for the host system
  • Preliminary PCI pass-through support (using appropriate Intel or AMD I/O-virtualisation hardware)
  • Preliminary support for a wider range of bootloaders in fully virtualised (HVM) guests, using full emulation of x86 ‘real mode’.
  • Faster emulation of standard (non-super) VGA modes for HVM guests
  • Configurable timer modes for HVM guests, depending on how the guest OS manages time-keeping
  • Many other changes and enhancements across all supported machine architectures

You can get the source using mercurial from here.

To extract your own source tarball:

# hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.2-testing.hg

# cd xen-3.2-testing.hg

# hg archive -t tgz -r RELEASE-3.2.0 ../xen-3.2.0.tar.gz

The announcement also stated that pre-prepared source tarball and binary packages will soon be available from the xen.org website.