6.3. Hyper-V
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Hosted as a Generation 2 Virtual Machine
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 can be used as a generation 2 virtual machine in the Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 host. In addition to the functions supported in the previous generation, generation 2 provides new functions on a virtual machine; for example: boot from a SCSI virtual hard disk, and UEFI firmware support.