I've installed Mint in a Hyper-V virtual machine on my Windows 10 Pro box, but the video driver doesn't seem to be useful. I found a couple pages in my searching and installed some extra driver packages and rebooted, but I can't tell if they did anything. The display is still slow as molasses, like 2-3 frames per second dragging the startup window around after logging in...
Are there any instructions on how to use Mint in Hyper-V or am I stuck with another distribution?
Hyper-V?
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Re: Hyper-V?
most of the available instructions are like this one:
http://www.technig.com/install-linux-mint-on-hyper-v/
and they don't go into getting drivers for the Guest System.
there is some extra information, like this :
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/05/h ... n-hyper-v/
the main issue seems to be that it performs much better if the Linux distribution supports Integration Services (IS),
http://www.technig.com/install-linux-mint-on-hyper-v/
and they don't go into getting drivers for the Guest System.
there is some extra information, like this :
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/05/h ... n-hyper-v/
the main issue seems to be that it performs much better if the Linux distribution supports Integration Services (IS),
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Re: Hyper-V?
Better late than never. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/window ... on-hyper-v, specifically under "Notes". You need to install the specific packages provided by Ubuntu/Linux Mint, depending on the corresponding Ubuntu release.
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Re: Hyper-V?
beside the recommendations to create the disk volume with ext4 and specific cluster sizes (for best performance when using .VMDX virtual drives), by first booting with the Live mode on RAMDISK to partition the disk yourself and create the ext4 volume with the best options, you just have to do this when the system is restarted:
- first make sure your distribution is up to date. Using the mintinstall tool (the initial ISO is always late from recent updates not integrated)
- apply the new kernel if needed (look at the Microsfot page for the supported versions to get the maximum benefit of Hyper-V integration), it speaks about Ubuntu LTS versions, but Mint is built as a derivative from Ubuntu and uses the same kernels.
- install the reduced kernel version to reduce the unneeded drivers in a virtual environment and get faster boot (optional):
sudo apt install linux-virtual
- install the tools. If you did not make the previous installation, run:
sudo apt install linux-tools linux-cloud-tools
- otherwise run these to reduce the dependencies and overhead of the two previous packages
sudo apt install linux-tools-virtual linux-cloud-tools-virtual
The linux-tools and linux-cloud-tools provide the additional integration tools and include the Hyper-V pravirtualization drivers (including the Hyper-V virtual bus driver that interconnect the Hyper-V host hypervisor with the other guest drivers for Linux
Note that the format integration tools on an ISO is no longer supported, the linux-tools packages are best as they are updated more easily (they also install much faster as they are precompiled and are easier to maintain after Linux kernel maintenance or Linux security updates, and they are integrated with the apt repository of installed packages)
- first make sure your distribution is up to date. Using the mintinstall tool (the initial ISO is always late from recent updates not integrated)
- apply the new kernel if needed (look at the Microsfot page for the supported versions to get the maximum benefit of Hyper-V integration), it speaks about Ubuntu LTS versions, but Mint is built as a derivative from Ubuntu and uses the same kernels.
- install the reduced kernel version to reduce the unneeded drivers in a virtual environment and get faster boot (optional):
sudo apt install linux-virtual
- install the tools. If you did not make the previous installation, run:
sudo apt install linux-tools linux-cloud-tools
- otherwise run these to reduce the dependencies and overhead of the two previous packages
sudo apt install linux-tools-virtual linux-cloud-tools-virtual
The linux-tools and linux-cloud-tools provide the additional integration tools and include the Hyper-V pravirtualization drivers (including the Hyper-V virtual bus driver that interconnect the Hyper-V host hypervisor with the other guest drivers for Linux
Note that the format integration tools on an ISO is no longer supported, the linux-tools packages are best as they are updated more easily (they also install much faster as they are precompiled and are easier to maintain after Linux kernel maintenance or Linux security updates, and they are integrated with the apt repository of installed packages)