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Microsoft To Support CentOS Linux In Hyper-V

Posted by Soulskill on from the virtual-olive-branch dept.

jbrodkin writes "Long the enemy of Linux users, Microsoft is apparently seeing dollar signs in the Linux-dominated Web server market. Microsoft's virtualization software, Hyper-V, will immediately add support for CentOS Linux, a community version of Red Hat that even Microsoft notes is a 'popular Linux distribution for hosters.' 'This enables our Hosting partners to consolidate their mixed Windows + Linux infrastructure on Windows Server Hyper-V,' Microsoft said. In addition to Web hosting, this targets another area where Microsoft is stuck in second place: the virtualization market dominated by VMware."

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  1. As seen in another Slashdot sig... by GameboyRMH · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Running Linux in a VM on Windows is like strapping yourself to the outside of a car with a seatbelt.

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  2. Worst of both worlds? by ron_ivi · · Score: 5, Funny

    So all the stability and security of Microsoft running on the bare metal; combined with the user-friendliness and ease of use of Linux. :)

  3. Why would you even do it? by hackus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Honestly I cannot understand why you would virtualize anything but commercial software. It is a pain to manage without virtualization, it suffers from legacy problems due to all of the very big risks you take when you buy the license. You really have no benefits at all I can think of running commercial software.

    Thanks to KVM, the commercial software I do have to buy, I can virtualize it, freeze the hardware requirements in time so it will always work forever and ever. Never need to reinstall it and it isn't if, but when the company goes tits up I am protected. I can dump the software on my terms.

    I can even make a copy of it in case the hardware virtualizing the commercial software breaks.

    Deploy it to a disaster recovery site and I don't have to have a huge checklist to go through to make sure it is configured right during recovery.

    No stupid specific backup agents for commercial software's little proprietary databases they all like to create to make things even more expensive to use.

    I left with the opinion that Hyper-V is a solution in search of a problem.

    I would be using Cent OS with KVM to virtualize Microsoft's OS, where it is safely under the flipper of my penguin, where it can't make my life hell.

    -Hack

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