How to Install Hyper-V on a Virtual Machine(warning:Hyper-V cannot be installed: A hypervisor is already running)

Make some test on laboratory we need to virtualize a machine on another virtual machine.

When make the installation of Hyper-V on virtual machine, we get error “Hyper-V can not be installed: The hypervisor is already running.”

We can install Hyper-V with PowerShell, But we  are not able to start the virtual machines.

Follow steps below for install Hyper-V :

1. Open Powershell and run command below to installs only the hypervisor:

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

2. To install the administration tools(RSAT tools )run command below:

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

3. Installing the feature Multipath-IO run command below:

Install-WindowsFeature Multipath-IO

4.  Installing all Windows Cluster features run command below:

Install-WindowsFeature RSAT-Clustering –IncludeAllSubFeature

5. Once all done run Restart-Computer command for restart VM.

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