Hyper-V

Hyper-V is Microsoft's enterprise-class hypervisor. This article Article description::explains how to run Gentoo as a guest operating system on Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor.

Getting Hyper-V support into Gentoo requires two important steps: kernel support and user-space graphic driver support.

Installation
This section shows the reader how to enable Gentoo to run as a guest on a Hyper-V hypervisor.

Linux guest support
Getting the kernel configured to handle Hyper-V is not terribly complicated. Below is a summary of the kernel features that need to be available to run Gentoo under Hyper-V. The features names are subject to change, so be sure to search the kernel's menuconfig for features containing the string.

Graphics
For X11 (graphical) support the CONFIG_FBDEV kernel option is required:

Emerge
If X server graphical support is desired through fbdev, be sure to adjust :

Next (re)emerge xorg-drivers package:

Removal
Removing the Hyper-V support is as simple as disabling the related kernel options (reverse the steps in the Kernel section above.

External resources

 * http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/linux-on-hyper-v/