Microsoft has released version 2 of the Linux Integration components. There’s a detailed document on that page. Here are some extracts:
“This version of the Linux Integration Components supports the following versions of Hyper-V:
- Windows Server® 2008 Standard, Windows Server® 2008 Enterprise, and Windows Server® 2008 Datacenter (64-bit versions only)
- Microsoft® Hyper-V Server 2008
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V RTM (Build 7600) Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 RTM (Build 7600)
This version of the Linux Integration Components supports the following guest operating systems:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 x86 and x64
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 x86 and x64
Linux virtual machines that will be deployed in a highly-available scenario (utilizing failover clustering) should be configured with static MAC addresses for each virtual network adapter. Because of the way Linux configures the network adapter, in certain versions of Linux, there is a possibility that the networking configuration will be lost after failover because a new MAC address is assigned to the virtual network adapter. To work around this issue, ensure that each virtual network adapter has a static MAC address. This can be configured by editing the settings of the virtual machine in Hyper-V Manager.”