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Microsoft Improves Windows/Linux Interop with New Virt Support for CentOS

By Michael Domingo
05/16/2011

Microsoft announced today that the company has added support for a Linux distribution to Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.

Thedistribution being supported is CentOS, which is based on the Red Hat distro. Because it's free, it's a popular option for hosting solution providers.

According to a blog from the general marketing manager for Microsoft's Open Solutions Group, Sandy Gupta, CentOS support was the "number one requirement for interoperability" among customer-generated feedback. The extended support gives some leverage to hosting solutions providers who want to centrally manage the various cloud infrastructures deployed by customers from Hyper-V.

A trending report from W3techs.com shows it to be the top Linux distro over the past year, although Debian has been running neck and neck with it by less than a point in more recent months. At DistroWatch.com, CentOS has placed as high as 10 among Linux distros in the last 12 months.

Gupta said that he will demo Hyper-V's new support for CentOS at a keynote presentation at the Open Source Business Conference, being held this week in San Francisco.

About the Author

Michael Domingo has held several positions at 1105 Media, and is currently the editor in chief of Visual Studio Magazine.

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