Xen 3.0.3 released!

Xen 3.0.3 released!

[Ian Pratt]

Folks, 

We're pleased to announce the official release of xen 3.0.3!

This release includes many new features as well as enhanced 
stability and performance. Some highlights include: 

  - a new easy-to-use CPU scheduler which includes weights, caps, 
    and automatic SMP load-balancing; 
  - support for Xen-oprofile to allow measurement and optimization 
    of code paths; 
  - greatly enhanced support for unmodified ("hvm") guests including 
    Windows and legacy Linux operating systems;
  - support for dynamic-allocation and copy-on-write disks
("blktap/qcow"); 
  - packet segmentation offload in guests to improve network
performance; 
  - enhanced support for IA64 (IPF) systems; and initial support for
Power. 

You can download source and binary tarballs, RPMs, and a live 'demo' CD
from:
  http://www.xensource.com/downloads

As always, you can also get the source using mercurial from: 
  http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.0.3-testing.hg 

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

Re: Xen 3.0.3 released!

[Tim Post]

Just upgraded about 3 dozen servers, various types include :

Commodity p4 2.8's (2GB)
Commodity p4 HT 3.2 -> 3.8 (4GB)
Pentium D 9xx (mixed) (4GB)

Commodity Athalon (2GB)
Dual Opteron 242 (16GB)
Dual Athalon 64 X2 (dual core) 4200's (4-16 GB)

Issues : none, smooth sailing.

All are operating from unique configurations, Debian or Ubuntu based,
the newer stuff is pulling guest images from an AoE san.

No issues with AoE, no issues with ocfs2, no issues with migration. 

Think now we can play more with our HVM guests as it seems this release
may have fixed our previous issues.
 
Excellent job xen dev team :) 

Best,
-Tim

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 22:55 +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:
> Folks, 
> 
> We're pleased to announce the official release of xen 3.0.3!
> 
> This release includes many new features as well as enhanced 
> stability and performance. Some highlights include: 
> 
>   - a new easy-to-use CPU scheduler which includes weights, caps, 
>     and automatic SMP load-balancing; 
>   - support for Xen-oprofile to allow measurement and optimization 
>     of code paths; 
>   - greatly enhanced support for unmodified ("hvm") guests including 
>     Windows and legacy Linux operating systems;
>   - support for dynamic-allocation and copy-on-write disks
> ("blktap/qcow"); 
>   - packet segmentation offload in guests to improve network
> performance; 
>   - enhanced support for IA64 (IPF) systems; and initial support for
> Power. 
> 
> You can download source and binary tarballs, RPMs, and a live 'demo' CD
> from:
>   http://www.xensource.com/downloads
> 
> As always, you can also get the source using mercurial from: 
>   http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.0.3-testing.hg 
> 
> Cheers,
> Ian (on behalf of the whole Xen dev team)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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