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Xen Hypervisor Roadmap

The following features/enhancements are proposed for Xen 4.0; see the complete community list at Xen.org Wiki Roadmap:

  • RDMA Live Migration Support
  • Dom0 kernel in Linux 2.6.30 or later
  • Dom0 support for Marvell 6480 disk driver
  • Pass through USB-Controllers/Devices for PV Guests
  • Fault Tolerance - Project Remus and/or Kemari
  • Monitor, Limit, Control network traffic coming at DomUs
  • Internationalization / Unicode Support
  • Configure Virtual Bridge like Real Switch (e.g. Control VLAN, port status)
  • VLan tagging per NIC int he VM Config File
  • Virtual Ethernet Switch
  • Physical Xen boot/install support via native UEFI (pUEFI) and virtual UEFI (vUEFI) support
  • Limit I/O for individual disks of VM (similar to credit scheduler weight)
  • Dynamic Memory Management for Overcommiting RAM
  • PCI CGA Passthrough for VT-d (vendor cards like Nvidia, AIT, etc)
  • Full AMD IOMMU Support
  • Online resizing of DomU Disks
  • Cross compliling Xen and Modular Builds

If you are interested in new features, please submit your ideas for Xen 4.0 to the xen-devel mailing list.