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Microsoft Hyper-V Leaves Linux Out In The Cold

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the some-things-never-change dept.

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."

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  1. WTF does Microsoft know about virtualization? by mwilliamson · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. Re:Troll article by pythas · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.