Anyone who has installed Linux on Virtual PC / Virtual Server knows that while yes, Linux is supported on these platforms, and yes, it does run well after getting it setup - installation can be a downright pain. It is for this reason that I take great pride in the fact that installing Linux on the Hyper-V beta release is a breeze.
Installing Fedora Core 8 in a Hyper-V beta virtual machine involves:
Grab the i386 or x86_64 DVD ISO of Fedora Core 8 from here: https://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora (I am using i386 for this post).
Open the Hyper-V management console and choose to create a new virtual machine. Then configure your virtual machine as you want (I went with a default VHD size, and 512mb RAM) and specify that you are going to install the operating system off of a CD image file:
Once you have created the virtual machine open the virtual machine settings and remove the "network adapter" and add a "legacy network adapter" (you need to do this if you are not installing the integration components for Linux):
Connect to the virtual machine, and then start it. It should immediately boot of the ISO file you specified in step 2:
You can then follow through the installation - accepting the default values that are offered. Eventually it will start copying the files:
And at the end of it all - Linux is there and 'just works':
As you can see there were no special options / kernel arguments / hardware configuration involved. All very straight forward.
Cheers,
Ben
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January 02, 2008
Ben, Have you tried to install and run any DOS games on Hyper-V?Anonymous
January 02, 2008
Ben, Have you tried to install and run any DOS games on Hyper-V?Anonymous
January 02, 2008
it's more or less easier with virtualbox. and it run on comodity hardware. and it's free and even partly opensourceAnonymous
January 02, 2008
Fedora 8 is distribution that is fully LSB compliant. So it is the perfect choice for testing. Excellent job Ben.Anonymous
January 02, 2008
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January 03, 2008
Wesley - Yes, I have - but that is a post for another day. Cheers, BenAnonymous
January 03, 2008
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January 03, 2008
Disregard my previous post.. I finally found the link. Thanks again for the help!Anonymous
January 04, 2008
Ben, I'd like to ask a favor of you. When you reply to someone's post, especially when they have asked a question, could you please include the question, or at least a snippet of it in your response? I get the "New Content" email updates, and it would be nice to see the original question in the update. A good example of this would be your latest posts to Chris Buckley and Wesley. We have to go to the blog and backtrack through it to see what you were responding to. It would really be cool if all that info was in the email update. Thanks again for running this, one of my top 5 favorite blogs!Anonymous
January 04, 2008
Just curious, how is it that the dialogs in the post have an aero frame around them? Are they running on Vista or does Server 2008 support aero? Thanks!Anonymous
January 21, 2008
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