Microsoft releases Hyper-V Linux device drivers
July 21st, 2009
Microsoft releases Hyper-V Linux device drivers – covered by the GPL.
“The Linux device drivers we are releasing are designed so Linux can run in enlightened mode, giving it the same optimized synthetic devices as a Windows virtual machine running on top of Hyper-V. Without this driver code, Linux can run on top of Windows, but without the same high performance levels. We worked very closely with the Hyper-V team at Microsoft to make that happen.”
As of late I think someone in Redmond is trying to drive RMS crazy and it looks like they’re doing a good job ;-)
Seriously though, this is good because it is in Microsoft’s best interest – which should mean that the drivers actually work well in real-world applications – and it makes it easy for Microsoft’s clients to run Linux applications on Windows without having to port everything to Windows.
Update 7/21: Please also refer to Greg Kroah-Hartmann’s blog post and the lkml post.