Xen3 Status and Updates
Xen3 is a very new technology that is still in development. Novell is proud to bring this cutting edge technology to SUSE in an early development state. With Xen3, many features evolve quickly and some of the areas are not mature yet. Xen3 brings several new Features over Xen2, amongst them are:
- x86-64 support (working)
- SMP support (currently disabled)
- PAE support (not enabled on SUSE Linux)
Legend:
means "Work in progress"
means "partial fixes"
means "will not be fixed"
Status of Xen3 on SUSE Linux 10.0
| Feature | Will be Fixed? |
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| In Bridging mode, Domain-0 restart may result in non-operational networking | 
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| In Bridging mode, dom-N was not set up automatically in Domain-0 |
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| SMP guest support disabled for now |
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| Does need more testing |
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| Graphics (AGP, DRM, 3D) don't work or even crash the machine | 
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| Hardware support is still limited (e.g. no PCMCIA) |
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| ACPI support in Domain-0 is limited (e.g. no cpufreq) | 
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| 32 Bit kernel is not PAE enabled |
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| Full virtualization on VT not well tested |
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| Other Operating System support on top of Xen and VT not tested |
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