native support for the Xen virtual machine monitor! With native Xen support on Intel platforms, NetBSD provides seamless support for execution of multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of performance and resource isolation.

Thanks to binary emulation in NetBSD, it is possible to run many commercial applications that are not available for NetBSD natively (such as Mathematica, Matlab or Maple). Over a dozen binary emulations are supported in NetBSD 3. These applications, and many more, are available through the NetBSD Package Collection, pkgsrc.