Download Microsoft Virtual Machine Additions for Linux 2.0

Microsoft has an update for Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 released adding support for Red Hat and Suse Linux distributions. The update can be downloaded as a 2.93MB heavy msi file for the 32bit– and 64biteditions of Windows Server 2003. After the patch is applied, Virtual Server 2005 will have support for the Enterprise editions of Red Hat and Suse. In addition, the Red Hat Linux and Suse Linux distributions can now also be run in a virtual environment. Below you can read which versions of the aforementioned operating systems are added to the list of supported operating systems:

Virtual Machine Additions information
To improve the interoperability between virtual machines running Linux guest operating systems and Virtual Server 2005 R2, Virtual Machine Additions are available for Linux guest operating systems. You can install these Virtual Machine Additions components in your Linux guest operating systems to improve the following operating system capabilities:

• Guest and host synchronization for time synchronization, for heartbeat generation, and for coordinated shutdown operations
• mouse driver
• Display driver
• SCSI hard disk emulation

Note: The SCSI hard disk Virtual Machine Additions component requires Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1).

Qualified Linux guests:

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
• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10

Standard distributions

• Red Hat Linux 7.3
• Red Hat Linux 9.0
• SuSE Linux 9.2
• SuSE Linux 9.3
• SuSE Linux 10.0