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History of Virtualization in Fedora
Fedora has been leading the pack of Linux distributions with the introduction of new virtualization features for many years now. This page provides a history of noteworthy milestones in Fedora's virtualization support.
Fedora Core 4: Glimpse of the future
- Released on June 13, 2005.
- A preview of Xen (2.x) virtualization as a set of add-on packages, released post-release.
Fedora Core 5: The future is now
- Released on March 20, 2006.
- First release to include Xen 3.0 virtualization for host and guest, as officially supported package.
- Installs of paravirtualized guests, with a text mode installer
- Early version of libvirt for managing Xen guests
Fedora Core 6: Virtualization grows up
- Released on October 24, 2006.
- Expanded Xen support including fully virtualized guests.
- Graphical framebuffer for paravirtualized guests
- Graphical installs of para & fully virtualized guests.
- Expanded libvirt APIs to allow monitoring of performance
- Debut of virt-manager tool for managing Xen guests locally with embedded graphical console
- The foundation of Xen support in RHEL-5
Fedora 7: The new kid on the block
Feature list
Other notable points
- Released on May 31, 2007.
- Continued support for Xen
- The introduction of KVM to native kernels for fullyvirtualized guests.
- libvirt gains a new hypervisor driver for managing QEMU and KVM guests.
- libvirt introduces 'virtual networking' capability providing 'out of the box' NAT based network connectivity for guests which plays nicely with NetworkManager.
Fedora 8: Protection from the bad guys
Feature list
Other notable points
- Released on November 8, 2007.
Fedora 9: Farewell to old friends
Feature list
- Xen fullyvirt direct kernel boot
- SASL authentication support
- PolicyKit authentication support
- Xen pv_ops DomU
Other notable points
- Released on May 13, 2008.
- Xen Dom0 support dropped, until Xen Dom0 pv-ops work is accepted by upstream kernel community
Fedora 10: Management at a distance
Feature list
- Virtual appliance building tools
- Remote deployment of virtualized guests
- Storage management in virtualization tools
Other notable points
- Released on November 25, 2008.
Fedora 11: The walled garden
Feature list
- PCI device assignment for KVM
- Merged QEMU and KVM RPMs
- sVirt confinement of virtual machines
- Improved VNC console handling
- SASL authentication for VNC
Other notable points
- Released on June 9, 2009.
Fedora 12: <witty tagline here>
Feature list
- Kernel SamePage Merging (KSM)
- KVM Huge Page Backed Memory
- KVM NIC Hotplug
- KVM qcow2 Performance
- KVM Stable Guest ABI
- libguestfs
- Virtual Network Interface Management
- Ovirt_Node
- Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
- Virt Privileges
- VirtgPXE
- VirtioSerial
- Virt Storage Management
Other notable points
- Due to be released on November 17, 2009.