I was just pointed out to a blog about Hyper-V and linux guest compatibility.
Wednesday, Microsoft said Hyper-V beta for Windows Server 2008 is feature complete. Included in the list of operating systems supported are Windows Server 2003 SP2, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1, Windows Vista SP1 (x86), and Windows XP SP3 (x86). See John Fontana’s article for more details about the Hyper-V RC announcement.
Though I’m anxious for Hyper-V to be released, especially the standalone version (which is not what this RC announcement was about), I’m very disappointed in Hyper-V’s lack of support for Linux.
No offense to SUSE Enterprise Server crowd, but only providing SUSE support in Hyper-V is a huge mistake. By not supporting Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, and BSD, Microsoft is telling us Hyper-V is a Microsoft only technology. More Mt. Redmond, Microsoft center of the universe thinking. That’s disappointing.
What the hell, no support for Red Hat? After checking the “live migration” video that was posted recently this is another punch in the face of MS and in the end also Novell. They can try to defend MS/Hyper-V but these articles don’t make things better, they should have bought Xensource when they had the chance.
John Troyer says
I am too busy to check right now, but according to Slashdot (impeccable and always correct source!)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=495712&no_d2=1&cid=22823450
They will also officially support RHEL 5 in the future according to the “Integration Components for Linux Read Me”.
Clint Eschberger says
I am very disappointed, but not surprised. I personally this is a big mistake by them, They are already playing catch up and this will not help them.
I have been playing around with Hyper-V for a while now and while legally I can not go into things, it is lacking in several areas. Although it does have some nice features as well.
Duncan Epping says
well we will have to see and wait i guess…
mrvirtualization says
Hi,
What even make it worse its not that easy to setup SUSE to perform as expected on Hyper-V. Have a look at the procedure posted at http://www.itcomparison.com/blg/?p=11
Although the author of the article say its a brief, it seemed to me a night mare !!!
Enjoy it while it last,
Mr.Virtualization
mrvirtualizaiton says
Hi,
Even with SUSE being the only supported distro, it is not easy or fun to set it up and get it to an acceptable performance. Give a look at the procedure of doing so at http://www.itcomparison.com/blg/?p=11 and you will discover the pain you will face to do so….
Enjoy,
MrVirtualizaiton