Why Hyper-V cannot boot off of SCSI disks (and why you should not care)

Under Hyper-V we have two kinds of disk controller that you can add to a virtual machine – IDE disks and SCSI disks.  A rough list of the differences between these controllers is as follows: IDE:

  • Works on operating systems without integration services installed / available
  • Can be used to boot a virtual machine

SCSI: