A fine line in terminology, When images are created for distribution, they're often then referred to as "appliances" particularly when they're pre-configured for some purpose (eg a LAMP stack). For example, 3 years ago I created a VMware appliance using 11.1/GroundworkOpensource/Nagios bundled with my own custom configurations for network monitoring in a Windows network. Distributing an appliance like that typically saves weeks if not months, instead typically you can be in Production within 30 minutes after pushing the "On" button. If the person has the DVD install, it takes only about the same amount of time to build your own base image compared to exchanging gigabyte files (typically about 1.5G compressed in my experience) over WANs. Also, it's probably not that useful to simply test whether the image launches (it almost certainly should unless it'a corrupted) but directed and organized testing could be useful... ie. special peripheral support in VMware, benchmarking (useful benchmarks require knowhow). IMO, Tony On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Jimmy PIERRE <jimmypierre.rouen.france@gmail.com> wrote:

On 10 March 2011 19:36, Tony Su <tonysu@su-networking.com> wrote:

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Hi guys, Jos and I had just this discussion with GregH in Germany.

Greg reports that he has installed openSUSE 11.4 into Hyper-V without any problems (at least that he saw).

Additionally, it looks like openSUSE will automatically install Hyper-V peripheral drivers automatically when available, this means that although installing most Linux distros likely will require the Hyper-V Linux Compatibility tools add-on (Similar to VMware tools, etc), it's unnecessary when installing openSUSE.

Hurrah for one less step and less complications!

As for "natively" -- It does seem that whoever used that word needs to explain what he means.

Tony

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Matt Hayes <dominian@slackadelic.com> wrote:

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On 3/10/2011 9:15 AM, Jimmy Pierre wrote:

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> Does Hyper V support openSUSE 11.4 natively?

What would you answer? I run openSUSE on Virtual box, VMware, Xen, really not 100% sure. However, SLED/SLES are supported natively!

Tricky hey? Best, Jimmy

PS Have you started tweeting yet?

The last I recall openSUSE was fully supported on HyperV.. not sure about new releases etc.

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Great!

Thanks Tony,

Maybe if we can share our vitualised images (Xen, VMware, VirtualBox) for people to test? Something that Microsoft does already, they have Windows X images as well as Echange and other applications, just off the shelf and here you go.

Cheers, Jimmy

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