LKBEN11739: How to add a legacy driver via device manager on Windows 10 or Windows 11?
Symptom
You cannot activate your hypervisor on your system and already enabled it in the BIOS.
Cause
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Solution
A possible solution to enable your hypervisor might be to add a legacy Hyper-V driver. This can be done via device manager. Click on the Action menu and select "add legacy hardware". Click next and select "Install the hardware that I select from a list". Select "system devices" and go to Manufacturer "Microsoft". Here you select the Hyper-V-Intrastructuredriver.
On a german windows 11 system, it looks like this:
Hope this helps.
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Author: - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.
Latest update: 25/07/2024