Download Xen 3.0.4

Xen is a virtual machine hypervisor 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 NetBSD are supported as operating systems, but other companies are busy supporting other operating systems such as Solaris. The developers released version 3.0.4 with the following announcement on the mailing list:

Folks,

We’re pleased to announce the official release of xen 3.0.4!

This is largely an opportunistic stabilizing release for HVM guests, due to the large amount of work in that area of ​​the code since 3.0.3. These enhancements have in particular improved support for SMP and ACPI Linux and Windows operating systems.

Other highlights of this release include:

• support for kexec/kdump of Xen and domain 0;
• graphical framebuffer support for paravirtualised guests;
• preview support for the new XenAPI management interfaces;
• enhanced support for IA64 (IPF) and Power systems.

Since 3.0.4 is an interim release, certain features such as HVM save/restore will now be part of Xen 3.0.5 which we expect to release in early 2007.

You can get the source using mercurial from:
http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.0.4-testing.hg

Source and binary tarballs, and RPMs, will be made available from:

Cheers,
Keir (on behalf of the whole Xen dev team)