Download Xen 3.2.0

Xen is a “virtual machine hypervisor” for the x86 platform and allows multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on a single system without drastically impacting performance. For more information about Xen and its community, we refer you to this one and this one page. Currently, only Linux and Netbsd are supported as host systems, but efforts are underway to fully support other operating systems, such as Solaris. The developers have released Xen 3.2.0 to the mailing list with the following announcement:

folk,

We’re pleased to announce the official release of Xen 3.2.0!

This has been a while coming, and represents the culmination of a lot of work to improve architectural cleanliness ‘under the hood’, while also providing a range of new user-visible features including:

• 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 virtualization hardware)
• Preliminary support for a wider range of bootloaders in fully virtualized (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:
http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.2-testing.hg.

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

Pre-prepared source tarball and binary packages will soon be available from the xen.org website.

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