Install Hyper-V Inside Hyper-V VMs.

Introduction

In this article we show how to virtualize one Hyper-V machine on a VM with Hyper-V installed.

Following procedure is only for laboratories. This option is not supported by Microsoft.

Requirements

A physical host Hyper-V with a VM for preparation and installation of Hyper-V.

Procedure

In preparation of a laboratory you need to virtualize a machine on another virtual machine that is working with Hyper-V. When making the installation of Hyper-V VM presented in the error "Hyper-V can not be installed: The hypervisor is already running."

When attempting to install the Server Manager will display the error "Hyper-V can not be installed: The hypervisor is already running."



Good for this procedure you will be able to perform the installation via the PowerShell Feature. More you can not start the VM's with "Start Option".

In PowerShell type the following command "That will perform the installation of Hyper-V in online mode" most do not restart the equipment.

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature –Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V –All –NoRestart



This process will perform the installation of Hyper-V Tools.

Install-WindowsFeature RSAT-Hyper-V-Tools –IncludeAllSubFeature

Installing all Windows Cluster features.

Install-WindowsFeature RSAT-Clustering –IncludeAllSubFeature



Installing the feature Multipath-IO.

Install-WindowsFeature Multipath-IO

After that we will restart the server after all all package installations.

Restart-Computer

After the restart the VM you can now validate that the console Hyper-V has been installed and you can start to test their laboratories.