Microsoft Updates VM Additions for Linux

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Oct 30, 20061 min

In a very quiet and fanfare free way, Microsoft released a package that contains the Virtual Machine Additions for Linux that is used with their Virtual Server 2005 R2 virtualization platform. The Virtual Machine Additions for Linux can be installed in the following Linux operating systems when running as guests of Virtual Server 2005 R2: Enterprise distributions Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (update 6) Red Hat E

In a very quiet and fanfare free way, Microsoft released a package that contains the Virtual Machine Additions for Linux that is used with their Virtual Server 2005 R2 virtualization platform.

The Virtual Machine Additions for Linux can be installed in the following Linux operating systems when running as guests of Virtual Server 2005 R2:

Enterprise distributions

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (update 6)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (update 6)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 Standard distributions

Red Hat Linux 7.3

Red Hat Linux 9.0

SuSE Linux 9.2

SuSE Linux 9.3

SuSE Linux 10.0

As usual, the latest version (1.1) of these Additions can be downloaded via the Microsoft Connect site.