- Jun 02, 2011 by the_angry_angel
- Virtualisation, Linux, Hyper-V, Debian and Ubuntu
Whilst it's possible to get Debian, and by proxy Ubuntu, running under Hyper-V it's nice to see that Microsoft are potentially going to officially support them along side CentOS, Red Hat and SuSE.
As someone who is running Debian and Ubuntu under Hyper-V I would heartily welcome this official support.
Sadly I suspect that if Gupta really does represent Microsoft's view, then the odds of getting on the official list is probably going to be quite low;
"Gupta says Microsoft is drawing the line at 'touching' the Linux code. It won't provide patches."
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Wake me up when Microsoft finally releases integration components for their "supported" OS, RHEL6. (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/linuxintegrationservices/thread/0ac2f051-9255-4c8d-8803-8c4ac03f1511/)
Only RHEL5 components are available. Do you actually have synthetic NICs running for Debian and Ubuntu or are they languishing under slow legacy virtual network adapters?
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I did have a few running on the synthetic NICs under Debian, but as I'm the only *ix guy at work I got rather frustrated compiling kernels to address security concerns.
They're now all running under the emulated/legacy adapters.
Honestly I'm not sure if you can call that languishing, however. The networking adapter works, I'm yet to see any major performance issues that seem to be directly related to the NICs. Granted the Linux boxes we have aren't under the highest load.
Going by the fact that they're yet to get RHEL6 I guess this is still a lackluster affair from Microsoft, and it reinforces the fact that as a general whole they don't "get" the Linux ethos.
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Just to follow this up I've had the need to install an Ubuntu 11.04 VM under Hyper-V the last few weeks, and it looks like Canonical have included the hv drivers out of the box.
The VM itself feels snappier, but in terms of network performance we're not seeing any significant improvement over the legacy, for what it's being used for.
If I have the opportunity I will try and see if we can do a proper like-for-like performance test.
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Wake me up when Microsoft finally releases integration components for their "supported" OS, RHEL6. (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/linuxintegrationservices/thread/0ac2f051-9255-4c8d-8803-8c4ac03f1511/)
Only RHEL5 components are available. Do you actually have synthetic NICs running for Debian and Ubuntu or are they languishing under slow legacy virtual network adapters?
I did have a few running on the synthetic NICs under Debian, but as I'm the only *ix guy at work I got rather frustrated compiling kernels to address security concerns.
They're now all running under the emulated/legacy adapters.
Honestly I'm not sure if you can call that languishing, however. The networking adapter works, I'm yet to see any major performance issues that seem to be directly related to the NICs. Granted the Linux boxes we have aren't under the highest load.
Going by the fact that they're yet to get RHEL6 I guess this is still a lackluster affair from Microsoft, and it reinforces the fact that as a general whole they don't "get" the Linux ethos.
Just to follow this up I've had the need to install an Ubuntu 11.04 VM under Hyper-V the last few weeks, and it looks like Canonical have included the hv drivers out of the box.
The VM itself feels snappier, but in terms of network performance we're not seeing any significant improvement over the legacy, for what it's being used for.
If I have the opportunity I will try and see if we can do a proper like-for-like performance test.