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Oracle VM Server for x86 can be freely downloaded through Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.<ref>[https://edelivery.oracle.com/oraclevm Welcome to the Oracle E-Delivery Web site for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM]</ref> Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle VM 3.4.6 at 30th30 November 2018.

==Components==

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==Versions==

* 3.4.6.2 - December 13, December 2019<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/oracle-vm-release-3462-is-now-available|title=Oracle VM release 3.4.6.2 is now available!|last=Priest|first=John|access-date=2020-02-24}}</ref>

**security updates

**cumulative bug fixes

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**Oracle VM Agent for SPARC 3.4.6.2

**new release model

* 3.4.6.1 - June 18, June 2019<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/oracle-vm-release-3461-is-now-available|title=Oracle VM release 3.4.6.1 is now available!|last=Priest|first=John|access-date=2020-02-24}}</ref>

**updated versions of the Oracle VM Manager and Oracle VM Agent for SPARC

**security updates

**cumulative bug fixes

* 3.4.6 - November 30, November 2018<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/oracle-vm-release-346-is-now-available|title=Announcing Oracle VM Release 3.4.6|last=Priest|first=John|access-date=2018-11-30}}</ref>

**Updated Xen hypervisor

**Update to the dom0 kernel

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**New Option to Change the Location of a Running Virtual Machine

**Increased Virtual CPU Configuration Limit for HVM and PVHVM

*3.4.5 - June 7, June 2018<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/oracle-vm-release-345-is-now-available|title=Announcing Oracle VM Release 3.4.5|last=Priest|first=John|access-date=2018-06-07}}</ref>

**Support for Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC) for better Oracle Database performance

**A new Fiber Channel storage refresh option with Oracle generic storage plugin deployments

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**Security and patch updates for Oracle VM Manager components

**Security and patch updates for Oracle VM Server for x86 packages

*3.4.4 - August 25, August 2017<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/announcing-oracle-vm-release-344|title=Announcing Oracle VM Release 3.4.4|last=Priest|first=John|access-date=2018-02-09}}</ref>

**[https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E69348/html/ol_changes.html Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 4] (UEK R4)

** Server package updates

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**Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2016

**Support for Skylake processors

* 3.4.3 - May 12, May 2017<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/announcing-oracle-vm-release-343|title=Announcing Oracle VM Release 3.4.3|last=Priest|first=John|access-date=2018-02-09}}</ref>

**The ability to run Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) with the Oracle VM Windows PV Driver 3.4.2

**Enhanced RAID functionality, with support for software RAID devices