Unable to WDS install Win 8.1 VM on Hyper-V 2012 R2

Question

Hi.
We've recently gone from Server 2008 R2 (Data Center) to Windows 2012 R2 (Data Center) and we're now trying to install Windows 8.1 clients on our Hyper-V solution.
When using the virtual machine creation wizard I create two test machines.
One machine is a gen1 and one machine is gen2 both are set to install via network (MDT 2013) and both a given a 40GB disk and 4GB of ram. Both installations fail.
"Windows setup could not configure windows to run on this computer's hardware".
According to everything I've found on the web this could happen if you try and install Windows 7 - something to do with 4K disks I think. This shouldn't happen on Windows 8.x.
I've seen a few posts where they explain the IDE controller being unable to handle 4K disks so that might explain something but in my case I also have a gen2 machine where disk is attached to a SCSI controller.
As I understand it a server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V should be able to have a Windows 8.1 installed on a VHDX file on a SCSI controller.
Can anyone help out here?
Thank you!

Answer 1

According to the web setup.exe /quiet /norestart should be valid parameters for the components.
What I mean by Applicaton Install is that there's a part of a Deployment Share where you can choose to install applications. A Task which will run at a appropriate time, e.g. Office is installed into our base image at that time. I tried including the Integration
Components before the Office install creating a base image with Office 2013 and the IC.
I also tried to use the base image a create a task for VMs only where no driver what so ever gets installed - it simply installs the base image created and activates Windows and nothing more. That doesn't work either.
The problem in a nutshell is this:
I want to install via MDT/WDS. I don't care if it's a regular machine or a virtual one. Both should work.
I've created several base images (Win7_x86, Win7_x64, Win8_x64 etc.) with Office included and everything has worked fine except when I try and install Windows 8 as a VM.
I must say that I've tweaked around and tried a few things while trying to find the problem so I probably have to test some things again to make sure what I say goes but we've installed both Win7 & Win8 on regular machines without problems but I can't
seem to install a Windows 8 machine via MDT/WDS for some reason as a VM - only on regular PCs.
As tested above installing via ISO works fine and creating a new image didn't help either.
The way I capture an OS is by simply write DoCapture=YES in my Deployment Share Rules section and boot into that Deployment Share (then I get a menu where I can choose to capture the machine and it simply installs the imported Windows ISO via a Standard
Client Task Sequence (where it also installs Office - there's an Application Install section part of the Standard Client Task Sequence).
So really really short; the image I try to install works fine on a regular PC but won't install on Hyper-V.