There is a module in Windows 2008 and 2012 that called hypervisor. The hypervisor is responsible for abstracting the computer’s hardware and creating multiple virtualized hardware environments, called VMs (Virtual Machine). You can install and run an operating system on each VM and each VM has its own hardware configuration. If you want to install Hyper-V on virtual environments such as VMware Workstation, the following message appears preventing you from continuing the process: Hyper-V cannot be installed: The hypervisor is already running.
It’s important to know that Hyper-V doesn’t work fine on virtual
environments such as VMware Workstation. I recommend you to install Windows
2008 or 2012 on a physical server then add Hyper-V role.
There is a solution for fixing this problem that isn’t a good idea
because it’s not supported by Microsoft, but it‘s appropriate for learning
Hyper-V.
Open Power Shell and type this command:
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature
–Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V –All –NoRestart
Do not restart server and run the following command:
Install-WindowsFeature
RSAT-Hyper-V-Tools –IncludeAllSubFeature
If you want
to install Cluster Service, run::
Install-WindowsFeature
RSAT-Clustering -IncludeAllSubFeature
Installing Multipath I/O is optional. If you want to install it, run the
following command:
Install-WindowsFeature
Multipath-IO
Then restart
the server. Now you can open Hyper-V console from Server Manager Console.
In the next
post that I present, I will write about how to install Hyper-V on a physical server on GUI
interface and creating VMs.
To be continued…
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