On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 10:04 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > I recently had the joy (?) of installing Debian in Microsoft's hypervisor, > Hyper-V. While the hypervisor is non-free (like e.g. VMware), the Linux > kernel contains free host drivers that greatly increase functionality > (e.g., you can access raw devices, have drives larger than 128GB, you get > networking access without going through an emulated 100Mbit/sec card, > you get heartbeat functionality to the hypervisor, etc.). > > They currently exist in the staging tree, and have been there since 2.6.32 > or thereabouts.
They are truly worthy of the 'crap' label though. It might be worth backporting the current versions to 'squeeze', but I don't think it would be a good idea to enable the versions in 2.6.32. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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