ZDNet

Windows 10 tip: Run Ubuntu Linux in an enhanced Hyper-V session

If you have a PC running Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise, Microsoft recently made it much easier to run Ubuntu Linux. In September, they added a customized Hyper-V image for Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS, the Long ...
Linux Journal

Ubuntu Desktop in the Hyper-V Gallery, an Interview with Canonical and Microsoft

Late last month, Canonical made an astonishing announcement: an optimized image of Ubuntu Desktop is now available from Microsoft's Hyper-V gallery. This wonderful new feature is primarily intended ...
Ars Technica

Ubuntu with Btrfs as fileserver, running under hyper-v: is this a terrible idea?

The article on ZFS and btrfs along with recent experiences with ReFS have me kicking around the idea of setting up Ubuntu along with disk passthrough to act as the file server portion of my lab. I'd ...
Ars Technica

Ubuntu Server install in Hyper-V: manual mkfs.ext4 flags?

I'm trying to setup a new 16.04/LTS Ubuntu VM on a Hyper-V 2012R2 server. MS has a best-practices guide for Linux on Hyper-V. One thing they specify is that ext4 should be used if you're using a ...