I just read on Ben Armstrong’s blog that both the beta releases of Windows 7 and Windows 7 2008 R2 come with the Hyper-V integration components built in. That means they’ll run as fast as possible (considering they’re betas with un-tuned code and debugging code still in place) on Hyper-V. He also says this is true of Hyper-V on Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2.
Sweet! I downloaded them last night so I’ll hopefully get to do some work on them in our virtual lab environment. I’ll happily accept sponsorship if someone can give me hardware to run a Windows 2008 R2 cluster lab 🙂