Failed to add current user to Hyper-V administrators group error when installing Visual Studio Community 2013

Question

I used to have Visual Studio Express installed on my laptop, which worked well, but when I heard Community 2013 was made available for free I decided to install it. However, after running the install process I got the error:

Failed to add current user to Hyper-V administrators group

The account I am using is an admin account. When I checked for solutions I found many people indicating I had to Microsoft Management Console and add myself to the group, however this laptop has Windows 8.1 Core, not pro, so I cannot add the snapin. So I am not really sure what to do in this situation. Do I need to reinstall, running it as admin? Or will I get the same error again?

Answer 1

Please check the right name of Hyper-V Administrators group. The group name may be different in the different locales.

Open the window Windows+R -> lusrmgr.msc in this window you may check all groups in your system and use command

net localgroup "<Hyper-V group name>" <username> /add

Answer 2

Try net localgroup "Hyper-V Administrators" <username> /add

in an elevated command prompt

Answer 3

For me below steps worked with me

preflight checks can all be individually disabled. For the HyperV check you can use:

minishift config set skip-check-hyperv-driver true

If you prefer the check to happen, but not fail startup, you can use the warn option instead:

minishift config set warn-check-hyperv-driver true

Answer 4

It's case sensitive apparently:

Try net localgroup "Hyper-V Administrators" /add