Today, Microsoft is finally releasing its first preview for its next Windows 10 feature update, which is version 21H1. It will come in the form of an enablement package, just like the previous update.
Next step in Redmond s complete virtualization stack with Linux
Tim Anderson Wed 17 Feb 2021 // 15:45 UTC Share
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Patches submitted by Microsoft for the next version of the Linux kernel, 5.12, add the ability to boot the OS as the root partition on its Hyper-V hypervisor.
The new hyperv-next patches follow an RFC last September stating that the company wants to create a complete virtualization stack with Linux and Microsoft Hypervisor.
In November Microsoft added a userspace interface for creating and running guest virtual machines while running on the Microsoft hypervisor that depends on root partition support.
Although Linux already runs well on Hyper-V, the architecture requires that the Microsoft hypervisor has at least one parent, or root, partition, running Windows. This root partition has direct access to the hardware, and creates the child partitions that run the guest operating systems such as Windows or Linux. The root partition