Comments on: Hyper-V: Error: Setup cannot upgrade the HAL in this virtual machine

By: BB

BB — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:34:18 +0000

I only have “Standard PC” listed so I cannot delete and it doesn’t find a better driver to update to. Copied a new hal.dll over and it won’t boot either.

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:03:50 +0000

Backup the *.vhd and attempt a Windows repair.

Let us know what happens.

By: Ktb

Ktb — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:41:28 +0000

as REMON said to copy hal.dll from win 2003 to VHD. i did this after renaming existing win 2000 hal.dll to hal_old.dll. but then my vhd became unbootable.
any suggetions??

By: craig

craig — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:36:12 +0000

I recently converted a physical server to a VM but it shows up as “MPS multiprocessor PC” and I can’t install the integration services. Can’t upgrade HAL, I don’t have Standard PC in the device manager.

I’m running Server 2000.

By: Remon Boonstra

Remon Boonstra — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:22:11 +0000

Hi Derek,

Please add this to your post:
- When you can’t remove ‘Standard PC’ in device manager, you can attach the VHD to an running Server 2003 machine and copy the hal.dll (windows\system32) to the vhd’s windows\system32 folder.
After that start your machine, you can now delete ‘Standard PC’ from device manager, reboot and follow your installation of ‘Integration Services’…

Thanks,

Remon