[ale] Fedora install?

[Scott McBrien]

This isn't too surprising.  Red Hat and Microsoft came to an arrangement to share information to improve their respective virtualization offerings.  Microsoft provides info to improve RHEV, Red Hat sends over data for Hyperv.

-Scott

> On Oct 25, 2013, at 9:50 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> wrote:
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> We run RHEL5 and RHEL6 guests on MS HyperV.    Interestingly RHEL is able to see that it is on HyperV so dmidecode gives relevant information.
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> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 9:17 AM
> To: Atlanta User Group (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [ale] Fedora install?
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> On Oct 25, 2013 8:43 AM, "Jim Lynch" <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
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> > On 10/24/2013 10:18 AM, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
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> >> Microsoft prefers SLES as a HyperV guest, and they still have some sort of a weird licensing arrangement with them.
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> > That statement in itself is enough to sour me on ever wanting to run SLES.  I don't trust MS.
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> > Jim.
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> It's not that bad. When Novell was SuSE lord and master, Novell bought a "licence" from M$ for some chunk of tech Redmond was claiming rights to. So there's a business history between them already .
> RedHat is far more of a threat than SuSE so there's no way M$ will "support" the use of RHEL in any form. Ubuntu is not yet seen as "data center ready" (nor are most other distros though Debian is used and Ubuntu is growing) so SLES gets the nod.
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