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# What's New in Oracle VM Server?

This Preface introduces the new features and enhancements of Oracle VM Server. This information is useful to users who have used previous releases of Oracle VM Server. The releases discussed are:

- New Features in Release 2.1.5

- New Features in Release 2.1.2

- New Features in Release 2.1.1

## New Features in Release 2.1.5

There are no new features in Oracle VM Server Release 2.1.5. A number of software and documentation errata have been fixed.

## New Features in Release 2.1.2

The new features and enhancements in Oracle VM Server Release 2.1.2 include:

- High Availability of server pools and guests. See Chapter 9, "High Availability", and the Oracle VM Manager User's Guide.

- Converting a Linux host to a guest image, and converting a VMware image to an Oracle VM image. See Chapter 8, "Converting Hosts and VMware Virtual Machines".

- Quality of Service configuration options for guest virtual network interfaces and virtual disks. See Quality of Service (QoS) in Appendix C, "Guest Configuration", and the Oracle VM Manager User's Guide.

- Support for the following Ethernet controllers for hardware virtualized guests:

  - Intel 8255x 10/100 Mbps (e100)

  - Intel 82540EM Gigabit (e1000)

  - Broadcom NetXtreme II (bnx2)

  - Broadcom Everest 10GB (bnx2x)

  - Broadcom NetXtreme and Netlink (tg3)

  - Chelsio T3 Third Generation 10Gb (cxgb3)

  - Qlogic Fibre Channel HBA (qla2xxx)

  - QLogic QLE8000

  - Emulex Fibre Channel HBA (lpfc)

  - Brocade Fibre Channel HBA (bfa)

  - LSI Logic Fusion-MPT SCSI (mptlinux)

  - LSI Logic MegaRAID SCSI (megaraid)

  - Redundant Disk Array Controller (rdac)

  See e100 And e1000 Network Device Emulators in Appendix C, "Guest Configuration" for information on using the e100 and e1000 controllers.

- Hypervisor debugger: Includes an optional kernel-level debugger for the Oracle VM Server hypervisor, allowing debugging of an entire host including all running guests. See the documentation installed with Oracle VM Server in the /usr/share/doc/xen/README.kdb file for more information.

  Guest debugger: Includes an optional guest debugger which allows individual guests to be debugged using the standard gdb network protocol. Supports both paravirtualized and hardware virtualized guests. See the documentation installed with Oracle VM Server in the /usr/share/doc/xen/README.gdbsx file for more information.

- Enhanced file I/O.

## New Features in Release 2.1.1

There are no new features in Oracle VM Server Release 2.1.1.