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Xen.org has sent out a rather long-winded press release announcing theavailability of the Xen 3.3 hypervisor. “With a full 64-bit address space, Xen can take advantage ofmassive amounts of physical memory, including new flash-memory basedstores, and Xen’s memory ballooning features permit dynamic reallocationof memory between guest Virtual Machines (VMs), to guaranteeperformance, and permit greater density of VMs per server. Xen 3.3 nowoffers CPU portability to allow live relocation of VMs across differentCPU feature sets, active power optimization, to reduce power consumptionon Xen-based servers and maximize data center power savings, andsignificantly enhanced security.” More information is available onXen.org.

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