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Linux on Hyper-V– Our Journey Through The Linux Staging Tree
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Speaker Bio: 
K. Y Srinivasan is a Principal Architect in the Windows Server and Cloud Division at Microsoft, where he has been leading the effort to enhance the support for Linux on Hyper-V. K. Y comes to Microsoft from Novell where he was a Distinguished Engineer, leading a number of key platform initiatives: K. Y was the Chief Architect for Modesto – the 64 bit NetWare platform. Most recently, K. Y led the virtualization efforts at Novell that included HyperV emulation on Xen and has made significant contributions to the “Intelligent Workload Management” strategy at Novell – K. Y has filed more than 20 patents in the areas of virtualization and workload management. Prior to joining Novell, he was a Distinguished Member Of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he was an architect and a key contributor to several releases of the UNIX Operating System. His areas of interest are: Operating Systems, OS virtualization and Fault-tolerant computing. K. Y. has a Ph.D in Fault-tolerant computing.
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Presentation - 45 Minutes
Abstract: 
Linux is supported as a “first class” guest on the Windows host platform. This presentation examines the virtualization architecture of the Hyper-V based Windows platform as it relates to effectively hosting Linux as a guest operating system. We discuss the details of the Hyper-V specific Linux drivers that are currently part of the upstream Linux kernel. For some time now, we have worked with the Linux kernel community to push our drivers upstream. We present here our experiences going through the staging tree maintained by Greg KH.
Target Audience: 
Architects
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  • Cloud Computing