Linux Integration Services 2.1 RTM Available
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Microsoft has recently finalized version 2.1 of the Linux Integration Services, and it is being
offered free of charge to customers running Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2 and also leveraging the Linux open source operating system in their virtual machines. As reported on Softpedia, Linux Integration Services 2.1 for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2 come with support for Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 / 5.3 / 5.4 / 5.5.
"'This release marks yet another milestone in providing a comprehensive virtualization platform to our customers. Customers who have a heterogeneous operating system environment desire their virtualization platform to provide support for all operating systems that they have in their datacenters. We have supported Linux as a guest operating system on our virtualization platform from the days of Virtual Server and continue to enhance our support in that regard,' revealed a member of the Microsoft Virtualization team."
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