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The document discusses an error that occurs when trying to install the Hyper-V management tools on a virtualized Windows Server 2012 machine that is already running on a hypervisor. It provides the workaround of using PowerShell to install just the management tools component without the full Hyper-V role.

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224 Error When Trying To Install Hyper-V Management Tools in Virtual)

The document discusses an error that occurs when trying to install the Hyper-V management tools on a virtualized Windows Server 2012 machine that is already running on a hypervisor. It provides the workaround of using PowerShell to install just the management tools component without the full Hyper-V role.

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Hyper-V Management Tools in virtualized Windows Server 2012
Posted on September 14, 2014 by Dan Perelman

In certain situations one may want to install only the Hyper-V Management Tools feature in Windows Server 2012
(this includes 2012 R2) rather than the whole Hyper-V role. The most common scenario for this, and the one used
in this example, is Windows Server 2012 itself is a virtual machine (VM) running under either Microsoft Hyper-V
Server or Windows Server with the Hyper-V role:

Since the Windows Server operating system knows the type of underlying hardware, and that in this case it is a
hypervisor, trying to add the Hyper-V role via the Add Roles and Features Wizard will not work.

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Add Roles and Features Wizard does not allow one to select to install management tools only in the Add
features that are required for Hyper-V? option:

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Attempting to install Hyper-V feature on a virtualized Windows Server 2012 will produce the following error:
“Hyper-V cannot be installed: A hypervisor is already running.”

The simple workaround is to use Windows PowerShell to add the Hyper-V Management Tools feature:

Add-WindowsFeature –name RSAT-Hyper-V-Tools

Reminder: Add-WindowsFeature cmdlet needs to be executed under administrative credentials:

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