on a single physical machine. The xentools41 package contains the
tools to create, destroy and control the virtual machines.
This package contains the tools for Xen 4.1.x
Release notes:
The Xen team is pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.1.
The result of nearly 12 months of development, new features include:
* A re-architected and improved XL toolstack replacing XM/XEND
* Prototype credit2 scheduler designed for latency-sensitive workloads and
very large systems.
* CPU Pools for advanced partitioning.
* Support for large systems (>255 processors)
* Support for x86 Advanced Vector eXtension (AVX).
* New Memory Access API enabling integration of 3rd party security
solutions into Xen virtualized environments.
* Many IOMMU fixes (both Intel VT-d IOMMU and AMD IOMMU).
* Many toolstack and buildsystem fixes for Linux and NetBSD hosts.
* Thirdparty libs: libvirt driver for libxl has been merged to upstream
libvirt.
* HVM guest PXE boot enhancements, replacing gPXE with iPXE.
* Even better stability through our new automated regression tests.
Detailed release notes, including a more extensive feature list:
http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/Xen4.1
To download tarballs:
http://xen.org/products/xen_source.html
Or the Mercurial source repository (tag 'RELEASE-4.1.0'):
http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-unstable.hg
And the announcement on the Xen blog:
http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2011/03/25/xen-4-1-releases/
Thanks to the many people who have contributed to this release!
Regards,
The Xen Team
