KB ID 0001512

Problem

If your OS is 2008R2 or newer then you wont need to do this as the drivers are already included. But what if you have a machine that you want to put the drivers in before you virtualise or migrate it. Well if you mount the ISO and run it this happens;

Unsupported Guest Environment
The Hyper-V integration services can only be installed inside of a virtual machine running Hyper-V

Bah! You are not the boss of me! I want the drivers in here because I’m about to virtualise it!

Solution

Mount the Integrations Services ISO on the machine (or open it with 7Zip and treat it like a zip file)

If you have Hyper-V 2016 or newer and cant find the iso, Microsoft handily don’t include any more, because it’s a massive 29Mb is size? (Yeah I don’t understand either?) Here’s a copy. Go to the x86 or amd64 directory depending on whether you are x32 or x64 bit. locate the Windows{Version}-HyperVIntegrationServices-{processor-version}.cab  that matches your machine and copy it to your desktop. Then open it, select all the files.

Download Microsoft Integration Services Disk

Extract the file to a folder.

Open an administrative command prompt, then change directory to the folder you extracted all the files into. Run the following command;

[box]for /f %i in (‘dir /b /s *.inf’) do pnputil.exe -i -a %i[/box]

It will run though and install all the drivers, you may get some warnings that some of the drivers are unsafe or unsigned. Just say install them anyway.

Note: If you are on Server 2003, then there are a bunch of KB updates on the CD that you will also need to install.

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