How to run open. SUSE Leap Linux on Hyper- V2. Jun 2. 01. 7 by Eric Siron    0    Hyper- V Articles. I’ve written articles about using two popular Linux server distributions, Ubuntu and Cent. OS, on Hyper- V. Those distributions have large, strong communities, but truthfully, I chose them primarily because of my own familiarity. I decided that I should start branching out into other popular offerings. So, as you probable discovered from the title, this article will introduce open. SUSE Leap on Hyper- V.

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If you’ve been on the fence about incorporating Linux into your environment, then you have been waiting for this article. About open. SUSE and open. SUSE Leap. The SUSE distribution family provides substantial offerings. SUSE, who provides the impressive enterprise stack, builds upon open. SUSE, not the other way around. I didn’t spend a great deal of time researching those enterprise products, but they are doing some good work, especially in the management space.

All of those products include a price tag, however. I’m not opposed to a company turning a profit from its work, but I’m assuming that most of you are here because your price range hovers at “free”. SUSE can meet that price point. It also offers enterprise- grade quality. There are two branches of open. Microsoft Publisher Templates For Magazine. SUSE. The first is Tumbleweed. Its name signifies its philosophy as a rolling release.

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Its products, components, and packages receive near- continuous updates. According to its blurb, it targets developers and desktop users that want cutting/bleeding edge technology. Leap is the second open. SUSE offering. It operates on the more familiar regulated release cycle.

So, you won’t find the absolute latest packages in Leap, but you also won’t need to worry (as much) about breaking any third- party software that your organization relies upon. Why open. SUSE Leap? Before we can decide between Tumbleweed and Leap, we must address a more pressing question: why choose open. SUSE at all? As I’ve said before, I don’t feel strongly about any distribution. I know that some rigidly adhere to a specific distribution and they all have their reasons. I just want whatever gets the job done with minimal frustration. I like Ubuntu, but I find its refusal to allow remote connection by the root account causes me more harm than good.

However, I was recently tasked with some involved. I really needed mouse- driven copy/paste functionality. None of my solutions were elegant and most caused me problems at one point or another. Also, I have some concerns about the long- term direction of the Ubuntu project. So, while I find the server edition of Ubuntu easy enough to use, it’s no longer my first choice. I’ve been working with Cent. OS more ever since writing my article on it.

It’s growing on me; I confess to having developed some level of fondness for it. However, it’s a bit slower on release cycles than I would like. It’s difficult to match the certainty that Cent. OS offers, though. If you’re mostly dealing with popular FOSS projects (such as a LAMP stack), then Cent. OS might not be your best choice. If your organization uses software provided by a third party and they prefer Cent.

OS, then choose Cent. OS. Now we arrive at open. SUSE. I must say, they sort of had me at hello: Truthfully, I was hooked by the management capabilities. As I started working with my first open. SUSE system, I did what I knew from Cent.

OS and Ubuntu. Things mostly worked, but I felt a little disappointed with the package management system. Specifically, I wasn’t entirely certain how to get it to remove unreferenced package dependencies. So, I did some searching, and was directed to a little gem called YAST: YAST is a character- mode menu- based management system for open. SUSE. If you’re not quite ready to jump from graphical Windows to command- line Linux, YAST can carry you over the divide. Underneath all of that, open. SUSE uses rpm. That means that you’ll be able to run many things on open. SUSE that you could run on Red Hat’s derivations.

Why Leap instead of Tumbleweed? Personally, I would choose Leap for my datacenter. Leap is more predictable, and in a sense more reliable.

Since we’re installing under Hyper- V and don’t care about driver updates, Tumbleweed is a safer choice than it would be when directly installed on a hardware platform, but regular release cycles always make our vendors feel better. My todo list contains an entry to fire up Tumbleweed on my Client Hyper- V installation, but I’m going to use Leap on my server platforms. Downloading open. SUSE Leap. Acquiring the software is your first step. I would start on the Leap homepage, as the download page will change with the version number.

As the site exists today, a relatively large Install Leap button sits prominently in the center. Click it to go to the download page.

On the download page, you can choose between the full 4. DVD package or a network- based install image. Unlike the other distributions that I’ve used, you can’t choose any sort of a minimal installer ISO. If you’re only going to be installing one or two instances or you have a really big Internet pipe and would rather not store bits, then the network installer will suit you fine. For me, I chose the full download.

That’s what the following instructions use. How to Build a Hyper- V Virtual Machine for open. SUSE Leap. Like the other distributions, Leap does not demand many resources. I use the same build for Leap virtual machines that I do for Ubuntu Server and Cent. OS: 2 v. CPUs, no reservation. All modern operating systems work noticeably better when they can schedule two threads as opposed to one. You can turn it up later if you’re deployment needs more.

Dynamic Memory on; 5. MB startup memory, 2. MB minimum memory, 1. GB maximum memory. You can always adjust Dynamic Memory’s maximum upward, even when the VM is active.

Start low. 4. 0GB disk is probably much more than you’ll ever need. I use a dynamically expanding VHDX because there’s no reason not to. The published best practice is to create this with a forced 1 megabyte block size, which must be done in Power. Shell. I didn’t do this on my first several Linux VMs and noticed that they do use several gigabytes more space, although still well under 1. I leave the choice to you. I initially had troubles using Generation 2 VMs with Linux, but I’m having better luck recently.

If you use Generation 2 with your Leap VMs on Hyper- V 2. R2/8. 1 or earlier, remember to disable Secure Boot. If using 2. 01. 6, you can leave Secure Boot enabled as long as you select the “Microsoft Certification Authority”. If your Hyper- V host is a member of a failover cluster and the Linux VM will be HA, use a static MAC address. Linux doesn’t respond well when its MAC addresses change. The following is a sample script that you can use or modify to create a Linux virtual machine in Hyper- V.

New- Linux. VM ? Switch. Type - eq 'External'). A reader pointed out on my Cent. OS article that it didn’t seem to matter for that distribution. My untested assumption is that the xfs file system that Cent. OS made the difference. Leap uses btrfs by default.

I have not tested larger block sizes with that file system, either. Installing open. SUSE Leap on Hyper- VIf you followed the script above, then you have a virtual machine with the installation ISO attached. Otherwise, you’ll need to create your own VM and manually attach the ISO. However you get there, start up your new virtual machine with the ISO mounted and its virtual DVD drive selected as the primary boot device.

SUSE’s installer is polished and smooth. I’d say its presentation shames all other Linux distributions that I’ve tried. However, it has many steps; more than I feel are necessary to install an operating system.

My VM (on Server 2. Secure Boot. If yours is the same, then you can choose Yes at the initial screen requesting open.