Some big news this week was Microsoft released the Hyper-V integration components for Linux source code under the GPL v2.
I just installed Ubuntu Server 9.04 in a Hyper-V VM with a Legacy Network Adapter. How do I install the integration components? Do I have to wait until they are included in the kernel?
Best Answer
You can either wait for a distro-integrated kernel to include it, wait for someone in the community to build an appropriate kernel package (which probably won't take too long), or patch and build a kernel yourself. Unless you're familiar with the procedures for building a kernel and applying kernel patches (given that there'll likely be significant changes between the Ubuntu-released kernel and the bleeding edge kernel these patches are targeted at), I'd leave it alone and wait for someone else to do it. It won't be a trivial operation.