Cannot install on Windows because Podman Desktop states Hyper-V not installed

[m8-t]

Bug description

I want to try Podman Desktop on Windows 10. When I click "Install" the pre-flight check states that Hyper-V is not installed. As I already use WSL2 on Windows 10 Hyper-V is mandatory. I double checked if it is enabled. Maybe I am missing a feature here? I do not have administrative rights on the machine but I am able to install VMs on Hyper-V, so I guess this should be okay?

Operating system

Windows 10 20H2

Version

next (development version)

Steps to reproduce

I run Podman Desktop version 0.0.6 (cannot chose from the menu above).

Download Podman Desktop, click on Install.

Relevant log output

No response

Additional context

No response

[benoitf]

Hello @dan-m8t thanks to report the issue

The hyper-v check is done there https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/blob/main/extensions/podman/src/podman-install.ts#L387

Could you run the command in a powershell (Get-Service vmcompute).DisplayName

And post the output ?

We compare it to be Hyper-V Host Compute Service

[artificial-intelligence]

fwiw the output from (Get-Service vmcompute).DisplayName is localized to the currently used language, so that check will fail on any non english windows 10 version.

this might help to force the ouput to be always in your preferred language (i.e. english):

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19869627/forcing-powershell-errors-output-in-english-on-localized-systems/19870547#19870547

[benoitf]

Thanks for the answer

For now, as workaround you can execute the MSI installer from there https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/download/v4.2.0/podman-v4.2.0.msi