I just transitioned to Hyper-V and I am trying to get a linux distro deployed. It seems that the integration services and Linux is really confusing with Hyper-V.<BR><BR>Has anyone on here got one ...

Late last month, Canonical made an astonishing announcement: an optimized image of Ubuntu Desktop is now available from Microsoft's Hyper-V gallery. This wonderful new feature is primarily intended ...

After his last foray into the “Linux guy reviews a Microsoft product” space, Jason Perlow is back -- this time to take a look at Microsoft’s Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization solution built ...

Old dogs may struggle with new tricks, but they seem to be able to figure out new licenses. In a shocking move, Microsoft announced Monday the release of Hyper-V Linux Integration Components (LinuxIC) ...

In a move that caused more than a few eyes to bulge and jaws to drop, last July Microsoft announced it was contributing code to the Linux community with hopes of having it included in the Linux tree.

I'm trying to setup a new 16.04/LTS Ubuntu VM on a Hyper-V 2012R2 server. MS has a best-practices guide for Linux on Hyper-V. One thing they specify is that ext4 should be used if you're using a ...

With today’s announcement that Microsoft will release a set of three Hyper-V drivers for the Linux kernel, Microsoft is treating its Windows Server 2008 customers right, but not, by any account, ...

Many believed that certain areas must have “frozen over” on Monday, but it was just an unprecedented move by Microsoft announcing that it was contributing code to the Linux community with hopes of ...

Microsoft Hyper-V is continuously improving its support for Linux distributions, but some occasional manual tweaking is necessary to accomplish tasks. Take, for example, an installation of Ubuntu in a ...

Adam Z. Lein has been a tech journalist at Pocketnow since 2002. He's also been a photographer since 1995 and a web developer & graphic designer since 1997 while working on the DEC intranet. He's also ...

In its latest embrace of open source software, Microsoft has taken the once unthinkable step of contributing 20,000 lines of code to the Linux community under the General Public License (GPL) version ...