Tips for Running Ubuntu Linux Under Hyper-V

Just today I got an Ubuntu installation running under Microsoft Hyper-V, and along the way I discovered some tips that may be helpful to others:

• The VM, for easiest setup, should be Generation 1. (This option only appears on the Windows 8 or newer edition of Hyper-V. Don't worry about it if you don't see anything about generations.)
• The hard drive image should be presented to the VM as a SATA or IDE drive. Bizarre error messages will result if you try to present it as SCSI.
• There will be error-looking messages about intel_rapl, both in setup and during normal boot. They appear to not matter. Just wait while the message is on the screen during setup; the process will continue normally.
• If there's a kernel panic, the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock lights will blink rapidly and will not return to their original states even after you click out of the Hyper-V Virtual Machine Connection window.
• There are Integration Services for several Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, which allow dynamic resizing of the view window, among other things.