Download Xen 3.0.1

Xen is a virtual machine monitor for the x86 platform and allows multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on a single system without dramatically impacting performance. If you want to know how the developers conceived and designed Xen, go to this page read the documentation. At the moment only Linux and *BSD are supported as operating systems, but other companies are busy supporting other operating systems such as Solaris. The developers released version 3.0.1 with the following announcement on the mailing list:

Folks,

We’re pleased to announce the release of Xen 3.0.1! This is primarily a bug fix and cleanup release.

Although many of the fixes had already been cherry picked into 3.0-testing, we felt it was time to roll a new release and encourage people to upgrade.

You can download src and binary tarballs along with RPMs for common distros from

As usual, you can download the source using mercurial from http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.0-testing.hg

Since branching the code for the release, the -unstable tree has had some fairly major merges: support for AMD SVM virtualization extensions (3.0.1 only supports Intel VT), and an upgrade to the latest linux version (with xen as a subarch of i386/x86_64 rather than a separate architecture). The tree is likely to be unstable for a little while as we absorb these changes, though we’d certainly appreciate feedback from users.

Best,
Ian