Microsoft to support Linux hosting in Virtual Server

[John]

Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> On Monday 03 April 2006 11:02, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> 
>>http://news.com.com/Microsoft+to+host+Linux+virtually/2100-7346_3-6056683.h
>>tml?tag=nefd.top
>>
>>"Microsoft said that it has developed software to simplify the
>>installation of Linux distributions from Red Hat and Novell SuSE to run
>>on Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Windows. In addition, Microsoft will
>>provide technical support customers running Windows and Linux side by
>>side."
>>
>>What, no Ubuntu?
> 
> I noticed that there was now a sign up for beta testing this offering.  
> Interesting on how it will support just SuSE and Red Hat.  I wonder what we 
> have to do to get Ubuntu support.
> 

I noticed that the Red Hat Linux releases that MS supports haven't been 
supported by RH for some years (but fedora legacy does offer support for 
them(.

Fedora Core isn't mentioned. I guess that MS has adopted those it sees 
as used by Corporate US, ignoring Fedora, Slack, Drakes and Debian 
derivatives.

As far as _running_ any distro you like, I'd not expect a problem if you 
use a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel.

BSD and Darwin would be more interesting:-)

And OS/2.