Comments on: Install SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP1 & Component Integration for Linux on Hyper-V

By: VMbloggie

VMbloggie — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:37:17 +0000

Hi Andy,

You are correct the integration Components will have the time synchronization feature integrated in it.
Please note: Its normal that virtual machines slip on time if you don’t sync their time to an external source, as they don’t see the full cycles of the physical CPUs; only see a part of it.

I hope that help.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:01:00 +0000

Great article, just wondering whether you found any problems with the System clock on the non Component Integration virtual machine? i.e. did it run fast and not at a consistent frequency (sometimes going backwards) and if so did installing the Component Integrations fix that?

By: muurman

muurman — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:45:45 +0000

The integration services are working in suse ent 10 sp1 . But the virtual cd/dvd isn’t working.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:59:39 +0000

It looks like IC is back at MS Connect site but I can not tell if the version is any different.

I am wondering if this would work for SLES10 *SP2*, if anyone tried that or there is no chance ‘cos the kernel is different and we have to wait again till it is supported ?

By: MM

MM — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:19:55 +0000

MS has pulled the beta and RC linux integration tools from its Connect site back in July. Here is the note on their site:

All -

I just wanted to provide an update on the Linux Integration Components. We
had to pull them down rather unexpectedly last month. While I can’t go into
details as to why they were pulled, I can say with confidence that we’ll be
posting a new version – the RTM version of the Integration Components – this
month.

All users who are registered with the Connect site will recieve a mail when
the binaries are available for download.

Regards -

Mike Sterling
Hyper-V Program Manager
Microsoft

—

So no one can/could install Linux VMs in hyper-V for the past month and a half! There’s a week left in August, so hopefully MS will come through with an RTM of the integration tools. Way to show your support to the linux community, MS…

By: whatavm

whatavm — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:53:32 +0000

Hi Markus,

I doubt any one can fulfill your request in here, as its against Microsoft Agreement when you sign up for the IC testing. Sorry.

Yours,
Whatavm

By: whatavm

whatavm — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:50:51 +0000

Hi Hiren,

Sorry for the late reply, but the site comments was not available as informed by one of the site admins, due to transferring it to a new hosting. Ok that said lets answer your question.

Hiren, did you install the Xen Kernel? It seems from your post you did not do that? Please follow step 1-6 in the post above to do that before you try to install the hypercall adapter.

I hope that helped. Please comment back the result.

By: Hiren

Hiren — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:54:11 +0000

Hi,

I tried installing linu IC on hyper-v. Everything went fine but I got stuck at hypercall adapter installation.
When I run the command “perl setup.pl x2v /boot/grub/menu.lst” I get an message XEN VIRTUALIZATION NOT INSTALLED. PLEASE CHECK XEN VIRTUALIZATION & RERUN”

Can anyone help me on this.
Thanks,

By: markus

markus — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:24:04 +0000

hi, can anyone supply me with the integration components rc2?

i accidently deleted them and now the download link on the microsoft site is gone

email would be blescha@yahoo.de. hanks

By: whatavm

whatavm — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:12:44 +0000

Hi PKS,

Actually in Hyper-V you can’t boot any Virtual machine from Virtual SCSI at the time I tested. I am not sure if that has even been fixed yet. You can see the below quote from the MSDN Blog. In addition, for Linux hosts SCSI controllers for additional disks seems not to function well till the IC is installed. So you really can’t used it through the installation process of your Linux Guest OS. As you need to install the IC after the OS has been installed to be able to use Virtual SCSI Controller.

“Each IDE controller can have two devices. You can not boot from a SCSI controller. This means an IDE disk will be required. The boot disk will be IDE controller 0 Device 0. If you want a CDROM it will consume an IDE device slot.” Source: MSDN Blog

I hope that answer your question.
Yours,
Whatavm