So one of my clients is using a product for social networking on Linux.  Wait, why is a SharePoint developer working on a project like that to begin with?  Well, the client wants to integrate the two, WSS to be specific, and their other product.

So after configuration of WSS and MOSS in a lab environment, the third party installed their product on a linux install.

Things are going very well, we have integration completed for the most part and we moved on to a provisioning tool.

Well if we want to create new site collections in SharePoint, that is no problem, what about creating sites on the other system?  Yep, just have to call some web services.  Only problem is that we do not have an install locally to dev / test against.

Well I have hyper-v running at my office, so why not just spin up a Suse install here and install the product?

Sure why not, Suse 11 install completes, but networking fails... turns out more than one processor assigned to a Suse VM caused networking to fail... I got an IP address, but could not ping anything.  Everything return Destination Host Unreachable.  To sum it up: Hyper-V Suse 11 needs to have only 1 processor and things work much nicer.