Exciting adventures with ZeroShell and Hyper-V

Perhaps "exciting" was a little overenthusiastic, but nonetheless I'm happy to publish my rebuild of ZeroShell that runs under Microsoft Hyper-V, at least on our Windows 2008 R2 Core server. This was... an interesting journey, involving a lot of kernel recompilation, patching, initrd editing and banging my head against the desk, but with a bit of shoehorning, the synthetic network adapters and the virtual storage system seem to be working quite well. I've not put it under stress testing or long-term tests yet though.

I've posted up at the ZeroShell forums with the full information on it, and would be quite happy to hear any experience anyone has with it, or if it works for them. I'm hoping to use it to do bonded VPN over our ADSL lines here on a virtualised system rather than an old PC that is currently running pfSense. Porting the firewall rules in is going to be an interesting experience, although I suspect I'll use Firewall Builder on an Ubuntu VM on my PC here, but that's going to be a story for another day.

The direct download link is here. You may need to delete /Database/var/register/system/net/interfaces/ETH* to have your network interfaces appear "normally", as I didn't clean it up before compressing it - sorry about that! More details (and no doubt feedback) will also be on the link above for the ZeroShell forums.