The Xen virtual machine monitor allows running several virtual machines
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


Status:

Vendor Tag: TNF
Release Tags: pkgsrc-base

(cegger)