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Microsoft Continues Working On Hyper-V Dom0 Support For Linux

Microsoft Linux engineers have continued preparing the Linux kernel to support Hyper-V Dom0 for Linux to run as the root partition.

Nuno Das Neves of Microsoft posted the initial patches that for kicking off the effort are restructuring the Hyper-V header files. "To support Hyper-V Dom0 (aka Linux as root partition), many new definitions are required. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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