Installing a linux guest under WSv/Viridian/Hyper-V
Call it what you will (apparently Hyper-V now) but you *can* install linux as a guest with a couple of simple steps.
Install using a text-based install and with adding “noapic” to your boot line (no quotes), then you should get a bootable install.
After rebooting the finished install, add “noapic” and “vga=788″to the relevant grubline and you are set. (you do this by editing the grub line when booting, press e and add noapic and vga=788 to the “kernel” line again by pressing e). Press enter to save changes and then b to boot.)