Microsoft touts Linux virtualization improvements coming in Windows Server 2012 R2
Last year, Microsoft announced plans to host Linux in virtual machines -- along with Windows Server VMs -- in Windows Azure. But that's not the end of what Microsoft is doing to try to make its Windows server and cloud the best platform for running Linux workloads.
With the coming Windows Server 2012 "Blue" (Windows Server 2012 R2) release, Microsoft is adding improvements targeted at those running Linux on Hyper-V in Windows Server.
A July 24 post to the company's Server & Tools blog detailed some of those coming updates, which revolve around the Linux Integration Services (LIS) network, disk, time-sync, shutdown and other drivers Microsoft built. Microsoft also built into its Hyper-V hypervisor features to enable live backups for Linux guests and live migration for Linux guests work the same as they do for Windows guests, according to the post.
