It looks like the Linux integration components for Hyper-V have gone RTM. Integration services optimise the performance of guest operating systems on Hyper-V. You can install and run x86 or x64 operating systems without them (especially if they are Xen enabled) but having these components will reduce their impact on the host and improve their performance.
The download is on Connect. They appear RTM (kind like Network Monitor was RTM on Connect); they are version 1.0.
Right now, the integration services support:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 x86
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 x64
I’d expect to see RedHat coming fairly soon. Microsoft is supporting RedHat with the OpsMgr Cross Platform Extensions and it wouldn’t make sense to have differing Linux support policies in the data centre.
However, you can still run RedHat on Hyper-V thanks to those Xen extensions.