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Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019 is live on the Microsoft Evaluation Center!!
In the interest of saving everyone's valuable time, it appears that Hyper-V Server 2019 no longer provides the ability to perform an in-place upgrade. Additionally running setup.exe on an existing Hyper-V Server (checked with 2012 R2 and 2016) and performing either of the setup options (upgrade or clean install) will result in a failed installation. Just tested these options with the latest ISO (17763.737.190906-2324.rs5_release_svc_refresh_SERVERHYPERCORE_OEM_x64FRE_en-us_1.ISO as of writing).
The only way to install Hyper-V Server 2019 is to boot from the ISO and perform a clean install.
It'd be nice if Microsoft documented this somewhere, especially as it's a behavioural change from past releases.
Thanks for reporting this. We're investigating the issue.
- Any update on in-place upgrade?
kamalswami Please refer to Jim Wooldridge's response on this thread from July: "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." Hyper-V is only released along with our LTSC versions so a new version is not expected in the short-term. At this point, we are still investigating options.
Mary Hoffman Can you please give us an update on this? Since the upgrade options are already built into the menus, it seems like this is a bug fix and not a feature request.
Thank you!
