Install fails on Windows Server 2019

When installing microk8s on Windows Server 2019 (runs on vmware hypervisor and has nested virtualization enabled), I get the error:

launch failed: The Hyper-V Hypervisor is disabled. Please enable by using the following
command in an Administrator Powershell and reboot:
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-Hypervisor
launch failed: The Hyper-V Hypervisor is disabled. Please enable by using the following
command in an Administrator Powershell and reboot:
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-Hypervisor

Multipass shell fails with the same error.

Btw, the suggested command seems wrong, at least for Windows Server:

PS C:\Windows\system32> Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-Hypervisor
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature : Feature name Microsoft-Hyper-V-Hypervisor is unknown.

But Hyper-v is installed:

Hyper-V service is running, but has no VMs:

PS C:\Windows\system32> get-service | findstr vmcompute
Running  vmcompute          Hyper-V Host Compute Service

Any ideas where to dig?

[joedborg]

Hi @biiiipy, as per https://github.com/ubuntu/microk8s/issues/1300, we’ve written up the docs for getting Windows workers enrolled on a MicroK8s cluster https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/add-a-windows-worker-node-to-microk8s/13782

[joedborg]

@biiiipy it’ll be on the microk8s docs site; we source that from discourse. It just takes a little time to update the sidebar there, so I was sharing this with you until then.

Getting Multipass (thus MicroK8s) to run on Server 2019 may take some time, but I’ll leave this issue open.

Thanks, Joe