Installing Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as a Generation 2 Hyper-V guest
Since Microsoft release Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V have had two different generations of virtual machines. The old “Generation 1” and the new “Generation 2”. Microsoft added generation 2 to get rid of the old stuff that really doesn’t make sense in a virtual world. And also to add new stuff. Generation 2 virtual machines provide the following new functionality: PXE boot by using a standard network adapter Boot from a SCSI virtual hard disk Boot from aSCSI virtual DVD Secure Boot (on by default) UEFI firmware support As can be expected all of these features worked fine straight away with Windows 8 (64-bit) and Windows Server 2012 or later. But they did not work well with Linux. Until now. ...