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I was working on the LAB and had Windows Server 2008 R2 installed on the base machine. I installed Hyper V Role and restarted the machine.
While installing domain controller on windows server 2003 using the iso in the LAB and i got the error message.

I tried with multiple iso's thinking that it could be issue with iso but it gave the same error for all the iso.
Checked the current windows version and it was running.

Installed SP1 on R2 and rebooted the base machine.
Now creating the LAB virtual machine and now it's working fine without any error.

Moral of the story, you can't create virtual machine on Windows 2008 R2 host. It has to be with SP1.

Cheers,

In Windows Server 8, Hyper-V features are enhanced, improving virtual machine performance and providing a scalable virtualization base for cloud deployments. This table provides a comparison of Hyper-V key features between Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 8.

Hyper-V Features	Windows Server 2008 R2	Windows Server 8
Host Memory	1 TB	2 TB
Logical Processors	64 (Max)	160 (Max)
Guest VM Memory	64 GB (Max)	512 GB (Max)
Guest Virtual Processors	4 per VM (Max)	32 per VM (Max)
Guest NUMA	N	Y
Host Failover Cluster	Y (16 nodes)	Y (63 nodes)
VM Support - Failover Cluster	1000 (Max)	4000 (Max)
Live Migration	Y (serial)	Y (concurrent)
Live Migration (no cluster or shared storage)	N	Y
Live Storage Migration	N	Y