{"id":10949,"date":"2010-11-17T10:06:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T10:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10949"},"modified":"2010-11-17T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T10:06:07","slug":"kernel-included-hyper-v-integration-components-make-linux-vms-easy-on-hyper-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10949","title":{"rendered":"Kernel-Included Hyper-V Integration Components Make Linux VMs Easy on Hyper-V"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Armstrong wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/virtual_pc_guy\/archive\/2010\/10\/21\/installing-ubuntu-server-10-10-on-hyper-v.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> a little while ago that demonstrates how easy it is to install Ubuntu Server 10.10 on Hyper-V.&#160; Ubuntu is one of the Linux distros that has kept the kernel up to date (don\u2019t ask me details because I\u2019m not a Linux person).&#160; As you may know, Microsoft submitted the code for the Hyper-V integration components (or VM additions if you will, to optimise the management and performance of virtual machines on a Hyper-V host server) for inclusion with the Linux kernel.&#160; This was accepted and included.&#160; This means that Linux VMs would be able to run just like Windows on Hyper-V.&#160; Earlier this year, Microsoft updated the integration components for Linux to add SMP (multi-processor) and integration services (management) support.<\/p>\n<p>Ben has demonstrated how easy it was to get Ubuntu Server 10.10 up an running with the updated integration components.&#160; The only thing he needed to do at the command prompt was to enable the IC for the virtual network adapter.&#160; And that was pretty easy!&#160; Compare that with what you have to do to get SLES or RHEL updated and you\u2019ll start wondering why you wouldn\u2019t switch to the free platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Armstrong wrote a post a little while ago that demonstrates how easy it is to install Ubuntu Server 10.10 on Hyper-V.&#160; Ubuntu is one of the Linux distros that has kept the kernel up to date (don\u2019t ask me details because I\u2019m not a Linux person).&#160; As you may know, Microsoft submitted the code &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10949\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kernel-Included Hyper-V Integration Components Make Linux VMs Easy on Hyper-V&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[181,184,195,117],"class_list":["post-10949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v","tag-linux","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-server-2008-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}