How-To: Installing Hyper-V Intergration Tool for Centos 5.6

1.   Download Linux Integration Services 2.1 for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2 at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=eee39325-898b-4522-9b4c-f4b5b9b64551

2.       Extract the download file.

3.       Mount the "LinuxIC v21.iso" to the target Centos machine

4.       Start the Centos VM

5.       At the console copy the components into the Centos VM by executing the below commands as root:

#mkdir /mnt/cdrom

#mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

#mkdir /opt/linux_ic_v21_rtm

#cp -R /mnt/cdrom/* /opt/linux_ic_v21_rtm

6.       Navigate to the directory where the components copied

           #cd /opt/linux_ic_v21_rtm

7.       Install the components using "make" command

           #make

           #make install

Below screenshot shows when the command executed successfully

8.      Shutdown the VM

9.      Change the network emulate to synthetic network adapter if you have not use synthetic network adapter

10.  Check all integration services

11.  Start the VM. This time the network interface name will change to SETH0 instead of ETH0

If you have issue similar to error "unable to find /usr/kernels/2.6.18-238.9.1.e15_x86_64", you have to check the symlink for the build located at "/lib/modules/kernel/build". make sure it is not broken.