todarsey Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 Has anyone here had any luck installing the Hyper-V management tool on their Vista machine? I am running Vista Home Premium SP2. It says that it installs correctly but the Hyper-V snapin isn't available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Isn't available as in not found, or doesn't work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todarsey Posted June 8, 2009 Author Share Posted June 8, 2009 Isn't available as in not found, or doesn't work?Isn't available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Interesting indeed. Seems the Vista SP1 RSAT package doesn't work on Vista SP2 yet, but you may be able to install the package by brute force perhaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todarsey Posted June 8, 2009 Author Share Posted June 8, 2009 (edited) I couldn't get it to work with SP1 either.I can go into "Programs and Features" and look at Installed updates and the update "Hyper-V Management Clients for Vista SP1 (952627)" is listed, but no snap in is available in my Admin Tools. Edited June 8, 2009 by todarsey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 What happens if you just click start and start typing hyper-v - does it show up in the start menu search list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todarsey Posted June 8, 2009 Author Share Posted June 8, 2009 Nope, nothing shows up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Hmmm - perhaps installing it from the MSU using switches to log the install, perhaps that might shed some light. It's likely failing, but hard to say why without some logging. The pkgmgr logging is usually pretty verbose, so it should help you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todarsey Posted June 8, 2009 Author Share Posted June 8, 2009 Hmmm - perhaps installing it from the MSU using switches to log the install, perhaps that might shed some light. It's likely failing, but hard to say why without some logging. The pkgmgr logging is usually pretty verbose, so it should help you.What switches should I use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 What switches should I use?For example, on an x64 Vista system you should be able to download the en-us x64 package to C:\TEMP (again, example) and install it as follows:start /w expand -f:* C:\TEMP\Windows6.0-KB941314-x64_en-US.msu C:\TEMP\941314start /w pkgmgr.exe /m:C:\TEMP\941314\Windows6.0-KB941314-x64.cab /l:C:\TEMP\941314.logThis will expand the msu into it's 4 component files, and pkgmgr should be able to install it (or at least attempt to install it) from the xml answer file and the .cab file (the pkgmgr.exe command line above). Once pkgmgr fails or succeeds, you can check the 941314.log to see what happened.However, I just noticed in your first post you said you were running Home Premium. Looking closely at the RSAT package download page, it may just be that your OS doesn't qualify as a version this will run on:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...vQXkRD9fA%3d%3dSupported Operating Systems: Windows Vista Business; Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows Vista Ultimate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todarsey Posted June 8, 2009 Author Share Posted June 8, 2009 (edited) I got the RSAT package installed and it shows a lot of new snapins but no hyper-v, not even after an uninstall/reinstall Edited June 8, 2009 by todarsey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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