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Mary Hoffman
Former Employee
Jun 15, 2019

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019 is live on the Microsoft Evaluation Center!!

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-hyper-v-server-2019 Also live on Visual Studio Subscriptions on 6/19/19: https://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Microsoft%20Hyper-V%20Server%202...
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Mary Hoffman
Former Employee
Jun 29, 2019

Hermann1235 Hyper-V upgrade is not officially supported. Have you tried a clean install? 

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joachiml
Copper Contributor
Jul 02, 2019

Mary Hoffman Ben Armstrong 

I think it is obvious that upgrade capabilities for Hyper-V make a lot of sense and there is a lot of interest in it. I really hope upgrade is considered for the next release.

Thanks, Joachim

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    Jim Wooldridge
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    Jul 02, 2019

    joachiml 

     

    Hyper-V Server upgrades aren't officially supported (nor has the validation of upgrades of various configurations of Hyper-V Server).  I can put this on the potential feature list for future versions, but I do want to be clear that this isn't supported. 

    Jim 

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      DannyBoy2042
      Brass Contributor
      Jul 02, 2019

      Jim Wooldridge Understood.  We didn't do this in production, but in-place upgrades have been a handy for us to update our dev environments without having to move VMs around and needing additional hardware.

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        Jim Wooldridge
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        Jul 02, 2019
        I understand the value here for sure.
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    DannyBoy2042
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    Jul 02, 2019
    Every past version did inplace upgrades just fine. This is just a broken image it feels like. If inplace upgrades were not supported the image should tell you in the beginning of the install...
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      Jim Wooldridge
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      Jul 02, 2019

      DannyBoy2042 

       

      Hyper-V Server upgrades aren't officially supported (nor has the validation of upgrades of various configurations of Hyper-V Server been conducted). Point well made that the install experience should handle and communicate this better. I can put upgrades on the potential feature list for future versions, but I do want to be clear that this isn't supported.

       

      Jim 

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        mf2112
        Copper Contributor
        Sep 10, 2020

        I would like to ask what part of the upgrade is not supported? I mean, it isn't like we are doing this through a hack, it is built into the Microsoft written menu options.

         

        You aren't going to support it but are advertising upgradeability as a feature. 

         

        Why did you spend development cycles writing UI menus and options to upgrade? Processes to check for upgrade blockers? To waste all of your time? To waste all of our time?

         

        I don't understand, can you please explain this to me since I really don't understand what the point was except to waste our time. I am serious, this is not intended to be a smartass comment. Please give us a better answer than "I do want to be clear that this isn't supported."

         

        Thank you,

        Mike Finney

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