I've been learning about Hyper-V support in Windows Server 2008, since I now use that as a desktop operating system at work, and I recently read a document from Microsoft that lists the *supported* guest operating systems. Of course, a virtual machine is a virtual machine, regardless of what OS runs on it, but I want to stress that this is from a list of officially *supported* operating systems. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv-supported-guest-os.a... They include: SLES 1.0 32-bit SP1 SLES 1.0 64-bit SP1 SLES 1.0 32-bit SP2 SLES 1.0 64-bit SP2 These are the ONLY non-Microsoft operating systems included in the list. Needless to say, I have an openSuSE 11.0 64-bit VM running just fine on my 2008 server, thank you. (How else am I gonna play mahjongg when I take a break from serious Windows software development?) :-) The whole idea behind server virtualization for commercial enterprises is to combine multiple low-load physical servers into low-load virtuals on a more fully utilized host server. I'm guessing that Microsoft had to swallow really hard when they created that listing tacitly suggesting that SuSE Linux servers are now worth considering for many of those server roles. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org