Wednesday, September 08, 2010

ubuntu 10.04: sluggish console on hyper-v

I’m very disappointed to see that the server edition console is unbearably slow under hyper-v. To work around this issue, you need to disable the frame buffer module:

edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf and add the following line:

blacklist vga16fb

Reboot and the console should be fine.