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Microsoft Hyper-V Leaves Linux Out In The Cold
whitehartstag writes to mention that Microsoft has announced their new Hyper-V as feature-complete. Unfortunately the list of supported systems is disappointingly short. "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. Sure, if you are a Microsoft only shop, Hyper-V will be an option for virtualization. But so will VMware and XenServer. But if you run a mixed shop, Hyper-V won't solve your problems alone — you'll have to also add VMware or Xen to your virtualized data center portfolio. Or just go with VMware and Xen and forego Hyper-V."
Microsoft so totally missed the virtualization boat that came by a decade or so ago... I'd liken buying a virtualization product from Microsoft about with buying a vehicle from Merrill Lynch.
not knowing what hyper-v is, wtfishyperv came to mind as a tag. Fishy Pervert?
Why would one want to run a proper OS inside virtualisation software on top of an insecure, unstable operating system?
Makes no sense to me.
Not supported does not mean that it will not run it.
Microsoft does not support the piracy of its software, but people still do it with out microsoft's support.
The fact taht they mention one distibution speaks wonders for them. At the same time they are saying you can run linux, but you didn't hear it from us.
If your running linux, support is something you do yourself most of the time anyway.
Im a gamer, not a grammer major. This post is full of spelling and grammer mistakes.
I don't think I want to know anything about a "fishy perv."
Shitty article with a misleading headline posted on Slashdot about Microsoft? I'M SHOCKED.
I've been running Ubuntu Server using Hyper-V since 2008 came out without any problems.
This story is tagged "wtfishyperv", which I first read not as "wtf is hyper v", but "wt fishy perv"...soo confused.
"More Mt. Redmond, Microsoft center of the universe thinking."
and:
THERE IS NO EASTER BUNNY.
Were you expecting they would release it open source?
Ah yes, the Linux "siren song".
You must not have ever read The Odyssey, you'd know that the sirens sang their irresistable song to lure sailors to their doom....