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!style="width: 15%;"|Xen 4.0
!style="width: 12%;"|Xen 4.0
!style="width: 15%;"|Xen 4.1
!style="width: 12%;"|Xen 4.1
!style="width: 15%;"|Xen 4.2
!style="width: 12%;"|Xen 4.2
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|Initial Release
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|Feature List
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|[[Xen 4.2 Feature List|FL 4.2]]
|[[Xen 4.2 Feature List|FL 4.2]]
|[[Xen 4.3 Feature List|FL 4.3]]
|[[Xen 4.3 Feature List|FL 4.3]]
|[[Xen 4.4 Feature List|FL 4.4]]
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|Release Notes
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|[[Xen 4.2 Release Notes|RN 4.2]]
|[[Xen 4.2 Release Notes|RN 4.2]]
|[[Xen 4.3 Release Notes|RN 4.3]]
|[[Xen 4.3 Release Notes|RN 4.3]]
|[[Xen 4.4 Release Notes|RN 4.4]]
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!colspan="5"|<big>Supported Mainline Architectures for the hypervisor (Host)</big>
!colspan="6"|<big>Supported Mainline Architectures for the hypervisor (Host)</big>
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|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-32 IA-A32]
|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-32 IA-A32]
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|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 X86-64]
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|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium Itanium (ia64)]
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|ARM v7 + Virtualization Extensions
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|{{HalfDone}}<small>tech preview</small> <sup>[ [[#Foot6|6]] ]</sup>
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|{{HalfDone}}<small>tech preview</small> <sup>[ [[#Foot6|6]] ]</sup>
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!colspan="5"|<big>[[Xen Overview#Guest_Types|Guest Types]]</big>
!colspan="6"|<big>[[Xen Overview#Guest_Types|Guest Types]]</big>
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!colspan="5" style="background-color: #A9BCF5;"|For X86 Architectures
!colspan="6" style="background-color: #A9BCF5;"|For X86 Architectures
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|Paravirtualised<br/><small>Traditional Xen ''PV'' guest</small>
|Paravirtualised<br/><small>Traditional Xen ''PV'' guest</small>
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|HVM Guest <sup>[ [[#Foot1|1]] ]<br/><small>Fully virtualised guest using hardware virtualisation extensions</small>
|HVM Guest <sup>[ [[#Foot1|1]] ]<br/><small>Fully virtualised guest using hardware virtualisation extensions</small>
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|PV-on-HVM Guest <sup>[ [[#Foot1|1]] ]<br/><small>Fully virtualised guest using PV extensions/drivers for improved performance</small>
|PV-on-HVM Guest <sup>[ [[#Foot1|1]] ]<br/><small>Fully virtualised guest using PV extensions/drivers for improved performance</small>
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!colspan="5" style="background-color: #A9BCF5;"|For ARM Architectures
!colspan="6" style="background-color: #A9BCF5;"|For ARM Architectures
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|ARM Guest<sup><br/><small>Optimal combination of full virtualization and PV extensions</small>
|ARM Guest<sup><br/><small>Optimal combination of full virtualization and PV extensions</small>
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|{{HalfDone}}<small>tech preview</small> <sup>[ [[#Foot6|6]] ]</sup>
|{{HalfDone}}<small>tech preview</small> <sup>[ [[#Foot6|6]] ]</sup>
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!colspan="5"|<big>Host Limits</big>
!colspan="6"|<big>Host Limits</big>
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!colspan="5" style="background-color: #A9BCF5;"|For X86 Architectures
!colspan="6" style="background-color: #A9BCF5;"|For X86 Architectures
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|Physical CPUs
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!colspan="5" style="background-color: #A9BCF5;"|For ARM Architectures
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!colspan="5"|<big>Guest Limits</big>
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!colspan="5" style="background-color: #A9BCF5;"|X86 PV Guest Limits
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!colspan="5" style="background-color: #A9BCF5;"|X86 HVM Guest Limits
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!colspan="5"|<big>Toolstack</big>
!colspan="6"|<big>Toolstack</big>
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!colspan="5" style="background-color: #A9BCF5;"|Built-in
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|xend / xm
|xend / xm
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|{{Tick}}<small>deprecated in this release</small>
|{{Tick}}<small>deprecated in this release</small>
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|[[XL]]
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|Qemu based disk backend (''qdisk'') for [[XL]]<br/>
|Qemu based disk backend (''qdisk'') for [[XL]]<br/>
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|{{Tick}} <sup>[ [[#Foot5|5]] ]</sup>
|{{Tick}} <sup>[ [[#Foot5|5]] ]</sup>
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|[[XL]] [http://openvswitch.org/ Open vSwitch] integration
|[[XL]] [http://openvswitch.org/ Open vSwitch] integration
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|{{Tick}}<small>tech preview</small> <sup>[ [[#Foot7|7]] ]</sup>
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!colspan="5" style="background-color: #A9BCF5;"|3rd Party
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|[http://libvirt.org libvirt] driver for [[XL]]
|[http://libvirt.org libvirt] driver for [[XL]]
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!colspan="5" style="background-color: #A9BCF5;"|Advanced Memory Management
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|Memory Ballooning
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|Memory Sharing<br/><small>allow sharing of identical pages between HVM guests</small>
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|{{HalfDone}}<small>tech preview</small> <sup>[ [[#Foot3|3]] ]</sup>
|{{HalfDone}}<small>tech preview</small> <sup>[ [[#Foot3|3]] ]</sup>
|{{HalfDone}}<small>tech preview</small> <sup>[ [[#Foot3|3]] ]</sup>
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|Memory Paging<br/><small>allow pages belonging to HVM guests to be paged to disk</small>
|Memory Paging<br/><small>allow pages belonging to HVM guests to be paged to disk</small>
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|{{HalfDone}}<small>tech preview</small> <sup>[ [[#Foot3|3]] ]</sup>
|{{HalfDone}}<small>tech preview</small> <sup>[ [[#Foot3|3]] ]</sup>
|{{HalfDone}}<small>tech preview</small> <sup>[ [[#Foot3|3]] ]</sup>
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|[http://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem/ TMEM] - Transcendent Memory
|[http://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem/ TMEM] - Transcendent Memory
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|{{HalfDone}}<small>experimental</small> <sup>[ [[#Foot2|2]] ]</sup>
|{{HalfDone}}<small>experimental</small> <sup>[ [[#Foot2|2]] ]</sup>
|{{HalfDone}}<small>experimental</small> <sup>[ [[#Foot2|2]] ]</sup>
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!colspan="5" style="background-color: #A9BCF5;"|Resource Management
!colspan="5" style="background-color: #A9BCF5;"|Resource Management

Revision as of 10:49, 10 March 2014

Legend: ✓: Feature ✓: Partial

Xen 4.0 Xen 4.1 Xen 4.2 Xen 4.3 Xen 4.4
Initial Release 7 April 2010 25 March 2011 17 September 2012 9 July 2013 10 March 2014
Feature List FL 4.2 FL 4.3 FL 4.4
Release Notes RN 4.0 RN 4.1 RN 4.2 RN 4.3 RN 4.4
Supported Mainline Architectures for the hypervisor (Host)
IA-A32 ✓ ✓ ✓ Removed
X86-64 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Itanium (ia64) ✓ ✓deprecated in this release ✓deprecated Removed
ARM v7 + Virtualization Extensions ✓tech preview [ 6 ]
ARM v8 ✓tech preview [ 6 ]
Guest Types
For X86 Architectures
Paravirtualised
Traditional Xen PV guest 		✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
HVM Guest [ 1 ]
Fully virtualised guest using hardware virtualisation extensions 		✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
PV-on-HVM Guest [ 1 ]
Fully virtualised guest using PV extensions/drivers for improved performance 		✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
For ARM Architectures
ARM Guest
Optimal combination of full virtualization and PV extensions 		✓tech preview [ 6 ]
Host Limits
For X86 Architectures
Physical CPUs 128 [ 0 ] >255 4095 4095
Physical RAM 1TB 5TB 5TB 16TB
For ARM Architectures
Physical CPUs 8
Physical RAM 16GB
Guest Limits
X86 PV Guest Limits
Virtual CPUs 128 >255 512 512
Virtual RAM 512GB 512GB 512GB 512GB
X86 HVM Guest Limits
Virtual CPUs 128 128 256 256
Virtual RAM 1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB
ARM Guest Limits
Virtual CPUs 8
Virtual RAM 16GB
Toolstack
Built-in
xend / xm ✓ ✓ ✓deprecated in this release ✓deprecated
XL ✓initial implementation ✓preview release ✓ ✓
Qemu based disk backend (qdisk) for XL
 ✓ [ 5 ] ✓ [ 5 ] ✓ [ 5 ]
XL Open vSwitch integration ✓tech preview [ 7 ]
3rd Party
libvirt driver for XL ✓ ✓ ✓
Features
Advanced Memory Management
Memory Ballooning ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Memory Sharing
allow sharing of identical pages between HVM guests 		✓tech preview ✓tech preview ✓tech preview [ 3 ] ✓tech preview [ 3 ]
Memory Paging
allow pages belonging to HVM guests to be paged to disk 		✓tech preview ✓tech preview ✓tech preview [ 3 ] ✓tech preview [ 3 ]
TMEM - Transcendent Memory ✓experimental [ 2 ] ✓experimental [ 2 ] ✓experimental [ 2 ] ✓experimental [ 2 ]
Resource Management
Cpupool
advanced partitioning 		✓ ✓ ✓
Credit 2 Scheduler
designed for latency-sensitive workloads and very large systems. 		✓prototype ✓prototype ✓experimental
NUMA scheduler affinity ✓
Scalability
1GB/2MB super page support ✓ ✓ ✓
Deliver events to PVHVM guests using Xen event channels ✓ ✓ ✓
Interoperability / Hardware Support
Nested Virtualisation
Running a hypervisor inside an HVM guest 		✓experimental ✓experimental
HVM PXE Stack gPXE iPXE iPXE iPXE
Physical CPU Hotplug ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Physical Memory Hotplug ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Support for PV kernels in bzImage format ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
PCI Passthrough ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
X86 Advanced Vector eXtension (AVX) ✓ [ 4 ] ✓ ✓
High Availability and Fault Tolerance
Live Migration, Save & Restore ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Remus Fault Tolerance ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
vMCE
Forward Machine Check Exceptions to Appropriate guests 		? ? ✓ ✓
Network and Storage
Blktap2 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Online resize of virtual disks ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Security (also see this presentation or this document)
Driver Domains ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Device Model Stub Domains ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Memaccess API
enabling integration of 3rd party security solutions into Xen virtualized environments 		✓ ✓ ✓
XSM & FLASK
mandatory access control policy providing fine-grained controls over Xen domains, similar to SELinux 		✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
XSM & FLASK support for IS_PRIV ✓
vTPM Support
 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
updates and new functionality
Tooling
gdbsx
debugger to debug ELF guests 		✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
vPMU
Virtual Performance Management Unit for HVM guests 		✓ [ 4 ] ✓ [ 4 ] ✓ [ 4 ] ✓ [ 4 ]
Serial console ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓Add EHCI debug support
xentrace
performance analysis 		✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Device Models and Virtual Firmware for HVM guests
For X86 Architectures
Traditional Device Model
Device emulator based on Xen fork of Qemu 		✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Qemu Upstream Device Model
Device emulator based on upstream Qemu 		✓tech preview ✓default, unless stubdomains are used
ROMBIOS
BIOS used with traditional device model only 		✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
SeaBIOS
BIOS used with upstream qemu device model and XL only 		✓ ✓
OVMF/Tianocore
UEFI Firmware used with upstream qemu device model and XL only 		✓experimental [ 4 ] ✓experimental [ 4 ]
PV Bootloader support
For X86 Architectures
PyGrub support for GRUB 2 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
PyGrub support for /boot on ext4 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
pvnetboot support
Bootloader supporting network boot of PV guests 		✓ ✓

[ 0 ] Compile time limit, can be increased
[ 1 ] Requires hardware virtualisation support
[ 2 ] Disabled by default (enable with hypervisor command line option). Not supported in production and doesn't have full security support
[ 3 ] Preview, due to limited tools support. Hypervisor side in good shape
[ 4 ] Disabled by default (enable with hypervisor command line option)
[ 5 ] Used as a fallback if blkback and/or blktap2 are not available
[ 6 ] See Xen ARM with Virtualization Extensions; basic functionality implemented; lack of real hardware to validate against
[ 7 ] tech preview, depending on test coverage in Xen Test Days

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