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I was stuck on this since last week. http://blogs.technet.com/b/jhoward/archive/2013/11/04/hyper-v-generation-2-virtual-machines-part-7.aspx Q: Why don’t we support 64-bit Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 as a guest operating system in generation 2 virtual machines? A: Certainly it is true that Windows 7 support UEFI, the first requirement for generation 2 virtual machines. However, Windows 7 has a hardware dependency on a Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC) which is not present in generation 2 virtual machines. Even if Secure Boot is disabled, an attempt to install Windows 7 will result in an apparent hang at “Starting Windows” shortly after boot, consuming 100% VP utilisation. A similar effect to this will be seen if attempting a network install from a WDS server which has a Windows 7 era boot PE image – network boot will appear to hang as well. For that reason (along with the keyboard issue in Windows 8 PE) I strongly recommend any WDS server are upgraded to th...

It will ask you to add another dll which conflicts with this one. To resolve this problem, you need to add the other dll and use the steps mentioned here to give it an alias so that both dlls can be referenced without conflicting with each other: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ansonh/archive/2006/09/27/774692.aspx Nobody else gives you a straight answer of how to do this.