On Sun, Aug 16, 2015, at 05:43, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2015-08-16 at 13:41 +1000, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > [...] > > I found it very disappointing that I had to defend Debian against Ubuntu > > which is stealing our audience by somehow arranging more favourable hosting > > conditions on Azure. I'm not talking about availability of OS images. > > According to "Information for Non-Endorsed Distributions" [1] > > > > "The Azure platform SLA applies to virtual machines running the Linux OS > > only when one of the endorsed distributions [2] is used". > > > > So naturally my client is concerned that by choosing Debian they won't have > > benefits of SLA like they would have if they choose Ubuntu because the > > latter > > is "endorsed". > [...] > > No stable release of Debian includes the Hyper-V guest agents, which I > believe are strongly recommended.
Not only that, but we would also likely have to pay attention to hv support kernel-side (to backport important fixes and features that did not make it to the stable kernels for whatever reason). Someone that really cares about this should step up and claim the debian-on-hv hat ;-) -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org>
