Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete Hyper-V on Linux
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Re: Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete Hyper-V on Linux
#2What was the status of it so far in Linux?
Re: Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete Hyper-V on Linux
#3>Windows 10 is on a path to becoming a hybrid Windows/Linux system
This sounds promising, something closer to OSX would give apple competition for devs like myself that want a linux based system and a fluffy "it-just-works" gui
Re: Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete Hyper-V on Linux
#4This is awesome. Although hyperv itself has been great for me, there have been certain things which have been a royal pain (copying/unzipping a compressed image, integrating into our monitoring system come to mind) which don't work with the stripped down windows version they have. I do wonder though, will the Linux version be backwards compatible with the Microsoft hyper-v console? Or will there be something similar? It's very nice to be able to fire up a GUI over a vpn and right click add/configure a new machine.
Similarly with installing new images. If anyone has any insight into any of this id be really interested to know!
Re: Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete Hyper-V on Linux
#5>Windows 10 is on a path to becoming a hybrid Windows/Linux system This sounds promising, something closer to OSX would give apple competition for devs like myself that want a linux based system and a fluffy "it-just-works" gui
From what i can gather, China is hedging away from windows and onto the Linux based distro UOS(deepin).
I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft is also making some preparation for that movement
so they can still offer software for the Chinese market.
Re: Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete Hyper-V on Linux
#6What was the status of it so far in Linux?
Well, according to TFA, the patches were submitted as an RFC.
Short version: it's not in Linux, this is basically the very first step in getting it into Linux, it's still gonna be probably several months at least before it makes it into the mainline kernel, and then however long after that for it to make it into your distro's kernel.
FWIW, I think it was a little over 3 years from the first "RFC" for Wireguard until it was merged into mainline (part of that, though, is because some existing things in the kernel had to be "re-worked" first).
Re: Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete Hyper-V on Linux
#7>Windows 10 is on a path to becoming a hybrid Windows/Linux system This sounds promising, something closer to OSX would give apple competition for devs like myself that want a linux based system and a fluffy "it-just-works" gui
There's already WSL for your Unix needs.
However MS seems to fall back on its old bad habits and the "it-just-works" gui is less true since a while now (I would say a year): we had some major pains after every Windows update at work to the point where the admin blocked them in the firewall.
I think their release schedule (twice a year) is way too fast, and they should focus more on stability.
Re: Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete Hyper-V on Linux
#8>Windows 10 is on a path to becoming a hybrid Windows/Linux system This sounds promising, something closer to OSX would give apple competition for devs like myself that want a linux based system and a fluffy "it-just-works" gui
The ecosystem is already there for devs, except for those interested with directly interacting with their laptop's hardware.
I've migrated from MBP to Win10 WSL three months ago and it's like a breath of fresh air for general $DayJob backend CRUD-like work. I'd still prefer a Linux laptop, but WSL is so much closer to a real Linux box.
I don't think I touched PowerShell or any .BAT stuff even once.
Re: Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete Hyper-V on Linux
#9>Windows 10 is on a path to becoming a hybrid Windows/Linux system This sounds promising, something closer to OSX would give apple competition for devs like myself that want a linux based system and a fluffy "it-just-works" gui
The ecosystem is already there for devs, except for those interested with directly interacting with their laptop's hardware. I've migrated from MBP to Win10 WSL three months ago and it's like a breath of fresh air for general $DayJob backend CRUD-like work. I'd still prefer a Linux laptop, but WSL is so much closer to a real Linux box. I don't think I touched PowerShell or any .BAT stuff even once.
WSL2 is a simple virtual machine. Nothing you couldn’t do on macOS with e.g. multipass.
Re: Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete Hyper-V on Linux
#10>Windows 10 is on a path to becoming a hybrid Windows/Linux system This sounds promising, something closer to OSX would give apple competition for devs like myself that want a linux based system and a fluffy "it-just-works" gui
This sounds promising, something closer to OSX would give apple competition for devs like myself that want a linux based system and a fluffy "it-just-works" gui
I switched from macOS to Linux. GNOME and others are pretty good these days. I did try Windows + WSL2 out of curiosity, but my brain is just fundamentally incompatible with non-unix systems. Moreover, I was really annoyed that when Windows installed drivers automatically, it also installed a lot of Realtek and Intel crapware with it. Why?
It would be really nice though if Microsoft could make a Linux version of Office (even if it was just Wine-based), because the web version is too limited. Oh, and the Affinity suite would be nice as well ;).