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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 3.4.46 inat August30th 2017November 2018.

==Components==

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==Versions==

* 3.4.6 - November 30, 2018

* 3.4.4 - August 25, 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>

**Updated Xen hypervisor

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

**Update to the dom0 kernel

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

**Security and patch updates for Oracle VM Manager components

**New User-Defined Validity in Months Option for Self-Signed SSL Certificates

**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, 2018

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

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

**A new Balance Server start policy to complement the Best Server policy

**Increased performance for Microsoft Windows guest operating systems

**Support for TLS1.2 as the default connectivity protocol

**Update to the dom0 kernel

**Updated Xen hypervisor

**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, 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

** Security updates for Manager components and Server packages

** Updated Xen hypervisor for improved throughput and IOPS performance

**Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2016

**Support for Skylake processors

* 3.4.3 - May 12, 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

**Manager performance and supportability enhancements

**Simplified UEFI PXE boot process for Oracle VM Server for x86

**Updated Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 4 and updates to other server packages

**Security updates for manager components and server packages

* 3.4.2 - September 2016<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/oracle-vm-342-released|title=Oracle VM 3.4.2 Released!|last=Priest|first=John|access-date=2018-02-09}}</ref>

** Includes an updated DOM0 kernel based on the 4.1 mainline kernel via Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) Release 4 update 2.

** Adds NVME support, extended SCSI support in the guest OS, numerous performance improvements in the host and guest OS, Oracle VM manager performance and scalability improvements, and security improvements.

**Extended SCSI functionality available for virtual machines

* 3.34.1 - July 2April, 20142016<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/2235173|title=Oracle Announces Oracle VM 3.3|accessdate=2 July 2014}}</ref>

** A lot of internal improvements

** Support for Oracle VM Virtual Appliances

**Automated installation of VNC and Serial Console software

**Storage live migration

**User interface ehancements for virtual disk allocation

**Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) support

**Booting from UEFI

**Dom0 kernel upgraded

**Increased supported limits

**Improved performance

==Resource limits==