Hyper-V

Hyper-V is Article description::Microsoft's enterprise-class 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.

For X11 (graphical) support additional kernel options will be needed. If graphical support is desired through uvesafb, the package is necessary. It installs the user space tools for uvesa. Head over to the uvesafb article for instructions on how to satisfy the kernel and user space requirements of uvesafb. When finished return here and continue reading.

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/