Microsoft has released version 2.1 of its Linux Integration Services. The toolkit aims at the use of Linux in virtual machines with Microsoft Hyper-V technology from. With new drivers to Linux guest systems on Synthetic Networks Controller of the hyper-visor.

With version 2.1, Microsoft will improve the integration of Linux into its Hyper-V technology. A new driver for virtual guest systems Linux distributions can on the so-called synthetic network and memory controller interfaces to access that promise in Hyper-V is a higher power than the current emulated hardware. Virtual machines can use up to four virtual processors.

Microsoft has released the new version of the toolkit for the Linux systems Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.5 to 5.5 ready. The virtual machines must run on Microsoft's Hyper-V Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2.