InternetNews: Microsoft Says Hyper-V RC 1 Good to Go

Richard Adhikari has the story on InternetNews.com today that Hyper-V RC1 is out there and waiting for you. There are some caveats, however, so you'll want to read the story and pay attention to the details. Like this one:

Microsoft warned that Hyper-V RC 1 is not compatible with the current beta release of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008, and that users who are testing SCVMM should continue doing so with Hyper-V RC 0, the previous release.

That's not a huge deal, according to Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Bowker:

Bowker said SCVMM's inability to work with Hyper-V RC 1 won't matter to enterprise IT, which won't be purchasing either product for at least six months. By then, "the two will synch up and be on the same page," he added.

Rakesh Malhotra has more about this disconnect between System Center Virtual Machine Manager and Hyper-V on his blog:

Needless to say, we're working on a patch and plan to fully support RC1 and I'll update everyone on time lines once we have them nailed. Our goal is to make an update available within a couple of weeks once we get a chance to fix some of the breaking bugs and re-test a bunch of our functionality. Rest assured that our test team is on top of this

As for Linux support, the InternetNews article mentions that Hyper-V supports Novell SUSE Linux, but suggests Linspire could be added to the list sometime in the future.