Microsoft and Canonical enhance the virtual machine experience for Ubuntu 18.04

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Microsoft recently announced a joint Canonical company, in the upcoming Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) to provide a more powerful virtual machine experience. In a recent blog post, Microsoft introduced a number of details about the program that will provide consumers with an excellent, built-in Linux virtual machine experience that closely integrates with the host operating system. The company will work with Canonical on Hyper-V with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS -V virtualization solution implementation goals.

Craig Wilhite, the Microsoft Project Manager, said: “We’re partnering with Canonical on the upcoming Ubuntu 18.04 release to make this experience a reality, and we’re working to provide a solution that works out of the box. We feel there’s a great importance in having a VM experience that feels tightly integrated with the host. ”

In order to provide the community with a better, higher quality, and more improved Linux VM experience, Hyper-V will be very close in performance to the Windows client, and Microsoft also said it has worked with several open source XRDP Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) servers Of the developers to cooperate.

 

The company hopes that the end result is that users can use Ubuntu Linux Web Hosting on Hyper-V virtualization technology on a Windows 10-based system with just three mouse clicks. Microsoft also said standard Ubuntu VMs will support full clipboard functionality with better mouse experience, window adjustments, disk redirection, and other underlying features.

Source: Softpedia

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