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I'm gathering links to become oriented with the Fedora Docs Project and Virtualization features for F10.

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Virtualization Package Versions
Package	F9 Release	F9 Updates (20081003)	Rawhide	Rel Notes
kvm	65-1	65-9	74-4	http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/ChangeLog
libvirt	0.4.2-1	0.4.6-2	0.4.6-3	http://www.libvirt.org/news.html
python-virtinst	0.300.3-5	0.300.3-7	0.400.0-1
virt-df	n/a	2.1.1-8	2.1.3-2	http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/
virt-manager	0.5.4-3	0.5.4-4	0.6.0-1	http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html
virt-mem	n/a	n/a	0.6.0-1	http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-mem/faq.html alpha qaulity - 32bit QEMU and KVM only
virt-top	0.4.1.1-1	1.0.1-4	1.0.1-2	http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/ChangeLog.txt
virt-viewer	0.0.3-1	n/a	0.0.3-3
xen	3.2.0-10	3.2.0-15	3.3.0-1	http://www.xen.org/download/
xenner	0.29-2	0.41-1	0.46-1	http://cvs.bytesex.org/xenner.html

Need to pick improvements from release notes above.

This is a major new release with a host of new features including:

Power management (P & C states) in the hypervisor
HVM emulation domains ('qemu-on-minios') for better scalability, performance and security
PVGrub: boot PV kernels using real GRUB inside the PV domain
Better PV performance: domain lock removed from pagetable-update paths
Shadow3: optimisations to make this the best shadow pagetable algorithm yet, making HVM performance better than ever
Hardware Assisted Paging enhancements: 2MB page support for better TLB locality
CPUID feature levelling: allows safe domain migration across systems with different CPU models.
PVSCSI drivers for SCSI access direct into PV guests
HVM framebuffer optimisations: scan for framebuffer updates more efficiently
Device passthrough enhancements
Full x86 real-mode emulation for HVM guests on Intel VT: supports a much wider range of legacy guest OSes
New qemu merge with upstream development
Many other changes in both x86 and IA64 ports

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 ==== Other Improvements ====
 Need to pick improvements from release notes above.
+===== libvirt Updated to 0.4.6 =====
+===== Xen Updated to 3.3.0 =====
+This is a major new release with a host of new features including:
+* Power management (P & C states) in the hypervisor
+* HVM emulation domains ('qemu-on-minios') for better scalability, performance and security
+* PVGrub: boot PV kernels using real GRUB inside the PV domain
+* Better PV performance: domain lock removed from pagetable-update paths
+* Shadow3: optimisations to make this the best shadow pagetable algorithm yet, making HVM performance better than ever
+* Hardware Assisted Paging enhancements: 2MB page support for better TLB locality
+* CPUID feature levelling: allows safe domain migration across systems with different CPU models.
+* PVSCSI drivers for SCSI access direct into PV guests
+* HVM framebuffer optimisations: scan for framebuffer updates more efficiently
+* Device passthrough enhancements
+* Full x86 real-mode emulation for HVM guests on Intel VT: supports a much wider range of legacy guest OSes
+* New qemu merge with upstream development
+* Many other changes in both x86 and IA64 ports
 == Virtualization Release Notes Scratch Space ==