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Chapter 10. Virtualization

10.1. Xen
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Attaching a host CD-ROM to a PV guest

Support for attaching a host CD-ROM to a paravirtualized guest as a virtual block device has been improved.

Dynamic re-sizing of guest VBDs

In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8, virtual block devices in Xen guests reflect any on-line re-sizing of the host-side backing devices.

10.2. KVM
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SPICE QXL drivers added to virtio-win

To enable simple installation and updating of drivers without requiring an MSI installer to be run, SPICE QXL drivers have been added to the virtio-win RPM package.

10.3. SPICE
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New pixman package

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 includes a new pixman package which provides a low-level pixel manipulation library and offers features such as image compositing and trapezoid rasterization. The pixman package is added as a dependency of the spice-client package.

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