So you experience a “The Hyper-V service is not available” and when you try to start this service manualy, you’re getting: “Error 87: The parameter is incorrect.”

Error 87: The parameter is incorrect

Please note that allthough Windows 2008 is RTM, Hyper-V is still beta. I think it will be released RTM shortly too.

To fix this please be sure that:
– You installed Windows 2008 with ENGLISH language (reinstall if you didn’t do this)
– Selected the ENGLISH-US local (follow instructions below on how to fix afterwards)

1) Open “Regional and Language Options” from the controll panel.
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Comments (23) Posted by pieter on Thursday, February 28th, 2008