Microsoft has announced that it has updated its Virtual Machine Additions for Linux to 2.0 for its virtualization platform.

The company said that the Virtual Machine Additions for Linux are designed to improve the usability and interoperability of running qualified Linux operating systems as guests or virtual machines of Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. And they have added support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.

Installing the Virtual Machine Additions in your Linux guest operating system will help improve guest and host synchronization for time sync, heartbeat generation and coordinating shutdown operations, as well as improve mouse functionality, the display graphics and the SCSI hard disk emulation.

The list of qualified Linux guests include:

Enterprise Distributions

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (update 6)
  
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (update 6)
  
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  
• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
  
• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10

Standard Distributions

• Red Hat Linux 7.3
  
• Red Hat Linux 9.0
  
• SuSE Linux 9.2
  
• SuSE Linux 9.3
  
• SuSE Linux 10.0

You can register and download the package, here.

Posted by David Marshall on October 24, 2007 10:42 AM