Comments on: Installing SuSE Enterprise Linux 10 SP2 x64 on Hyper-V

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:28:36 +0000

Has anyone experienced an issue wher SUSE 10 sp2 installs as 32 bit instead of 64. Same box installs as 64 on baremetal, but 32 in Hyper-V.

Thank you for any assistance,
Brad

By: Johnny

Johnny — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:40:01 +0000

Hello Rob,

I followed your guide to get SLES working. It’s a great guide. However, when I boot up on xen I lose my cdrom. After some more experimentation when I boot up without xen I have the CDROM. Have you had this issue? I’ve looked over the internet and have found people with the same issue but no solution.

Thanks
Johnny

By: GreenNet

GreenNet — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:12:49 +0000

Really interestig information about Hyper-V and Suse. We are waiting for more…

By: SAM

SAM — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:41:24 +0000

Thats pretty straight forward instructions.
Enhancement request :-)
Use some cool screen shots to define for a novice users like me (Novice for linux).

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:33:21 +0000

I’ve learned the hard way that if your using “Remote Desktop” to connect to your Hyper-V server, then your going to have mouse issues with the Linux clients. My mouse kept moving to the top right hand corner and I couldn’t get it away and my keyboard commands weren’t working and it was pissing me off. After 3 hours I finally went over to the Hyper-V server and logged in… Worked -.- I tried multiple mice devices in the xorg.conf (/dev/psaux, /dev/mice…) and no joy.
I eventually got VNC up and running and now I just it to connect to the machine away from Hyper-V. I also had to edit screen resolution down from the GIGANTOR resolution to something more manageable for VNC. Remote desktop and Hyper-V is not a good thing for Linux clients.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:59:49 +0000

SLES 10.2 was chosen because it’s officially supported by Microsoft at Hyper-V launch. Red Hat 5 support is ‘coming’ but not available yet.

Basically if SLES 10.2 goes wrong, Microsoft/Novell will help you fix it :)

Unfortunately this doesn’t help me at work – we have an application whose vendor will only support RHEL or CentOS. I tried and failed to get this working; however I’ve just noticed that Julian Field has updated his blog with instructions on how to get RC2 of the Linux IC’s installed on RHEL/CentOS 5 – here

By: Justo

Justo — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:03:31 +0000

Why the choice of Suse over a debian variant or something?

Been doing something similar on an old laptop but wouldn’t mind trying it out on something a bit more robust.

Tried it as a mesh device yet?

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:46:27 +0000

Cool, will bookmark this page for future reference!