Ben Armstrong posted the following on his blog recently. Here are the steps, but check out his original posting which includes screenshots and comments.
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: http://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.
Read or comment on Ben's original post, here.