Hyper-V Linux Integration Components

A new release of Hyper-V Linux Integration components is now available. The highlight of this release is that it is compatible with Hyper-V RC0, and it also contains some bug fixes. The Linux Integration components for Hyper-V is still in Beta and you download them from Microsoft Connect Website at http://connect.microsoft.com

Fedora 8 installs on Hyper-V without any issue and with a Legacy Network Adapter, you do not really have to install the integration components to make it work. Legacy Network Adapter can be added to a guest machine from 'Settings > Add Hardware' option in Hyper-V manager.

However, without the Integration Components, the hard disk performance will be pretty bad. There is also a severe mouse issue especially if you are using the Hyper-V connection over Remote Desktop.

With the Integration components still in Beta, Hyper-V is far from being a reliable platform for Linux virtualization.

Lets hope this will change soon. At least being able to install Ubuntu will be great!

Posted on April 1, 2008 04:48 by Haider

Categories: Hyper-V
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April 5. 2008 09:36

Dave

Would you care to comment/elaborate on how to properly install the integration components for linux.  I realize they are beta however, I cannot seem to get them to properly install.

I tried perl setup.pl drivers from terminal and it outputs "Done".  However mouse capture still does not occur from RDP.

Dave

May 28. 2009 19:13

Matthew Mattoon

Hi Abu,

I messed up my links, can you delete my previous comment?  This is updated correctly.

Hi Dave,

You are experiencing this issue because the Integration Components and Mouse Integration are actually 2 different components. I have posted articles on installation of the Integration Components on Ubuntu and Debian as well as the Mouse Integration on Ubuntu and Debian.

blog.allanglesit.com/.../...Ubuntu-and-Debian.aspx

blog.allanglesit.com/.../...tion-on-Linux-VMs.aspx

Good luck.

-matt

Matthew Mattoon

September 5. 2009 04:18

Virtualizaiton Master

Dear Haider,

I have posted a step-by-step instruction including snapshots on how to install IC & recompile the required Linux kernel to speed up Linux on Hyper-V & Get best stability & up to speed of it. Although the article is mainly focused on SUSE, it mostly can apply to most other Linux distros. I was hoping you can share it with your reader. The article can be found at:

www.virtualizationteam.com/.../...-on-hyper-v.html

Thanks for helping me spreading the words, and I am pretty sure many of your readers thanks you as well.

Virtualizaiton Master

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