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."

Comments

Why did they call it Hyper-V

[s0litaire]

Bill should have just called it Hyper-W Tagline: Run Vista twice as slow as it runs on your comp. although people will probably use Hyper-V to run WinXP (so that all their programs run)

Re:So?

[timeOday]

Microsoft can choose to support whichever companies that they want.

And we can choose to point out how limited their products are as a result. So?

only Novell has signed the Munich Agreement with Microsoft, so it makes sense for Microsoft to exclude the others.

And most people don't use Suse, so it makes sense for them to exclude Microsoft's Hyper-V in favor of, say, VMWare. Glad to see we're all on the same page here.