Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

Hyper-V and Linux guests

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I was just pointed out to a blog about Hyper-V and linux guest compatibility.

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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.

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  2. 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.