I have preferred Debian and Ubuntu over RHEL mostly because their package collection was much wider. Thus at work I wanted to go with Ubuntu LTS as deal between Ubuntu's bleeding-edge and a more conservative approach of package versions while Debian Sqeeeze is not yet out. Happy thought I with the arrival of Microsoft hv-Moduls in the staging area things would be easy now. - Especially after 2.6.35 when MS included virtual SMP and shutdown integration. I will tell you later about more details but at the moment I can only give you this advice:<\/p>\n
Either you don't see error messages when using Ubuntu on Hyper-V during boot and during usage - and you are lucky - or you can see dieing network drivers and block devices that just kick out and will not be accessible until a full reboot of the respective VM. MS tested its 2.1 version against RHEL 5 and some SLES versions which are enterprise linux with mostly older kernels. They work, at least MS has certified them they should and I know people who don't see problems in bigger setups. MS' Linux IC 2.1 are yet the way also when using CentOS.<\/p>\n
For the Yet I have to say: hv is fine for you nerds and those interested in experimenting. For some it may work on non-Enterprise distributions, but be prepared for surprises.<\/p>\n
I will have to switch all my Linux-on-Hyper-V to CentOS or RHEL yet, neither was I succuessfull under R1 or R2 with Ubuntu LTS or Debian squeeze and lenny. I had lots of enthusiasm for Microsofts hv-Module and hoped it was in better shape. But when I just need a server to work, I will not touch a staging-driver anymore for something critical, it hurt and cost me enough of time.<\/p>\n
For the Debian guy in me it's like changing from his beloved comfortable car with apt and big bazaar of packages made by the Debian developers to a \"also well working\" but less attractive Vokswagen transporter: It's older, but at least: It works but almost every extra tool will need to be imported from outside (for example from remirepo<\/a>). - But in the end it's solidity that matters.<\/p>\n I recommend you to read the comments here for example about dying Network interfaces: http:\/\/www.panterlo.com\/2010\/10\/10\/ubuntu-10-10-and-hyper-v-r2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have preferred Debian and Ubuntu over RHEL mostly because their package collection was much wider. Thus at work I wanted to go with Ubuntu LTS as deal between Ubuntu’s bleeding-edge and a more conservative approach of package versions while Debian Sqeeeze is not yet out. Happy thought I with the arrival of Microsoft hv-Moduls … more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simweb.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simweb.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simweb.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simweb.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simweb.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simweb.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simweb.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simweb.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simweb.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}