You experience issues after you install Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Integration Services on a Vista Home Premium virtual machine or a Vista Home Basic virtual machine

Consider the following scenario:

• You have a Microsoft Windows Server 2008-based computer that has Hyper-V installed.
• You are running a Windows Vista Home Basic or a Windows Vista Home Premium virtual machine on the computer.
• You install Hyper-V Integration Services on the virtual machine.

In this scenario, you experience the following issues:

• Mouse integration does not work correctly.
• An "Unknown device" is listed in Device Manager. A yellow circle with a black exclamation point on it appears next to the "Unknown device."

These issues occur even though you receive a message that states that the services are installed correctly at the end of the Integration Services Setup.

Additionally, you receive the following error message if you reinstall the Integration Services:

These issues occur because Hyper-V Integration Services are not supported on Windows Server 2008-based computers that are running Windows Vista Home Basic or Windows Vista Home Premium virtual machines.

For more information about a list of guest operating systems that support Integration Services, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
For more information about Hyper-V technology, visit the following Microsoft Web site: