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A set of drivers that enable synthetic device support in supported Linux virtual machines under Hyper-V. See the Details section of this page for a link to more information about the latest Linux Integration Services (LIS) availability and supported distributions.

• Latest 4.1 version: 4.1.3-2 *Deprecated*
  
  The latest Linux Integration Services is the 4.2 series
  
  Please refer to the Linux Virtual Machines on Hyper-V topics for up to date information on the LIS feature set, all supported Linux distributions, availability and download locations.
  
  New with Linux Integration Services 4.1:
  
  •Expanded Releases: now applicable to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Oracle Linux with Red Hat Compatible Kernel versions 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.8, 7.2, and 7.3
  
  •Hyper-V Sockets
  
  •Manual Memory Resize
  
  •SCSI WNN
  
  •lsvmbus
  
  •Uninstallation scripts
  
  
  
  When installed in a supported Linux virtual machine running on Hyper-V, the Linux Integration Services provide:
  
  •Driver support: Linux Integration Services supports the network controller and the IDE and SCSI storage controllers that were developed specifically for Hyper-V.
  
  •Fastpath Boot Support for Hyper-V: Boot devices now take advantage of the block Virtualization Service Client (VSC) to provide enhanced performance.
  
  •Time Keeping: The clock inside the virtual machine will remain accurate by synchronizing to the clock on the virtualization server via Timesync service, and with the help of the pluggable time source device.
  
  •Integrated Shutdown: Virtual machines running Linux can be shut down from either Hyper-V Manager or System Center Virtual Machine Manager by using the “Shut down” command.
  
  •Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) Support: Supported Linux distributions can use multiple virtual processors per virtual machine. The actual number of virtual processors that can be allocated to a virtual machine is only limited by the underlying hypervisor.
  
  •Heartbeat: This feature allows the virtualization server to detect whether the virtual machine is running and responsive.
  
  •KVP (Key Value Pair) Exchange: Information about the running Linux virtual machine can be obtained by using the Key Value Pair exchange functionality on the Windows Server 2008 virtualization server.
  
  •Integrated Mouse Support: Linux Integration Services provides full mouse support for Linux guest virtual machines.
  
  •Live Migration: Linux virtual machines can undergo live migration for load balancing purposes.
  
  •Jumbo Frames: Linux virtual machines can be configured to use Ethernet frames with more than 1500 bytes of payload.
  
  •VLAN tagging and trunking: Administrators can attach single or multiple VLAN ids to synthetic network adapters.
  
  •Static IP Injection: Allows migration of Linux virtual machines with static IP addresses.
  
  •Linux VHDX resize: Allows dynamic resizing of VHDX storage attached to a Linux virtual machine.
  
  •Synthetic Fibre Channel Support: Linux virtual machines can natively access high performance SAN networks.
  
  •Live Linux virtual machine backup support: Facilitates zero downtime backup of running Linux virtual machines.
  
  •Dynamic memory ballooning support: Improves Linux virtual machine density for a given Hyper-V host.
  
  •Synthetic video device support: Provides improved graphics performance for Linux virtual machines.
  
  •PAE kernel support: Provides drivers that are compatible with PAE enabled Linux virtual machines.
  
  

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

File	Size
Linux Integration Services v4-1-3-2.pdf SHA1: 84e7e8183c5742ae2b2f7b0fb5b345f50de39c15	710 KB
LinuxIC-4.1.3-2.iso SHA1: 9d6144896730ef7dc5a29554a5d34d3d0880b9a1	204.96 MB
lis-rpms-4.1.3-2.tar.gz SHA1: d447c3f9a9bf8f4fa1c8400a819584a96ef85697	205.10 MB

• Hyper-V operating systems:
  
  •Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2012 R2
  
  •Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2012 R2
  
  •Windows Server 2016
  
  •Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016
  
  •Windows 8 Pro and 8.1 Pro
  
  •Microsoft Azure
  
  

• Refer to the PDF file for installation instructions.