# Installing SLES 11 SP2 on Hyper-V

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**Category:** SLES Virtualization\
**Created:** [June 13, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/installing-sles-11-sp2-on-hyper-v/22743 "2012-06-13T18:42:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![pmilza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@pmilza](https://forums.suse.com/u/pmilza)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/installing-sles-11-sp2-on-hyper-v/22743/1 "2012-06-13T18:42:22Z")

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Hi,  
I’m attempting to install SLES 11 SP2 as a guest on on Hyper-V (Windows Server 2008 R2). I’ve created a 40GB ide drive in hyper-v manager for this install and assigned 4gb of RAM to the guest. When the install process attempts to format the drive, it just hangs at 98% and I have to shut down the guest. I’ve searched quite a bit but couldn’t find anything. Any help or pointers would be appreciated.

thanks,  
pm

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**Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/installing-sles-11-sp2-on-hyper-v/22743/2 "2012-06-21T15:30:16Z")

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**Author:** ![tomikoski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19b73/32.png) [@tomikoski](https://forums.suse.com/u/tomikoski)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 8:18am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/installing-sles-11-sp2-on-hyper-v/22743/3 "2012-11-29T08:18:31Z")

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[QUOTE=pmilza;5099]Hi,  
I’m attempting to install SLES 11 SP2 as a guest on on Hyper-V (Windows Server 2008 R2). I’ve created a 40GB ide drive in hyper-v manager for this install and assigned 4gb of RAM to the guest. When the install process attempts to format the drive, it just hangs at 98% and I have to shut down the guest. I’ve searched quite a bit but couldn’t find anything. Any help or pointers would be appreciated.

thanks,  
pm[/QUOTE]Hi pmilza,  
I had exactly same issue with my Windows 8 and Hyper-V when trying to install SLES 11 SP2 (SLES 11 SP1 didn’t work at all since no disks were found by the installer).  
However, I managed to solve my problem by pre-allocating my virtual disk(s) - ‘fixed size’-disk instead of ‘dynamically expanding’.

This way I was able to install SLES without any problems.

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**Author:** ![tomikoski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19b73/32.png) [@tomikoski](https://forums.suse.com/u/tomikoski)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 9:42am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/installing-sles-11-sp2-on-hyper-v/22743/4 "2012-11-30T09:42:42Z")

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I also noticed that if you use .VHD disks instead of .VHDX disks, SLES 11 SP2 64-bit installation will also succeed.