Xen Product Roadmap

Xen 3.3 will close to new features on July 4, 2008 to allow for plenty of testing from the community. This release is expected to ship in late August 2008. The following features/enhancements are included in Xen 3.3:

* IO emulation "stub domains" for improved HVM IO performance and scalability

* replacement of Intel VT vmxassist by new 16b emulation code

* improved VT-d device pass-through e.g. for graphics devices

* enhanced C and P state power management

* exploitation of multi-queue support on modern NICs

* removal of domain lock for improved PV guest scalability

* 2MB page support for HVM and PV guests

* upgrade QEMU version

* enhanced xen api support

* switch to pv_ops as the main dom0/domU used for testing

If you are interested in new features, please submit your ideas for Xen 3.4 to the xen-devel mailing list.