Hyperv driver privilege checks fail
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Description
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#### Overview of the Issue
"Failed creating Hyper-V driver: Current user is not a member of 'Hyper-V Administrators' or 'Administrators' group"
#### Reproduction Steps
Run Hyperv-iso driver on Windows
### Packer version
v1.14.2
### Simplified Packer Template
any
### Operating system and Environment details
Windows 11 Pro
### Log Fragments and crash.log files
==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
Build 'hyperv-iso.amd64_builder' errored after 887 milliseconds 268 microseconds: Failed creating Hyper-V driver: Current user is not a member of 'Hyper-V Administrators' or 'Administrators' group
2025/11/02 09:27:00 machine readable: hyperv-iso.amd64_builder,error []string{"Failed creating Hyper-V driver: Current user is not a member of 'Hyper-V Administrators' or 'Administrators' group"}
==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.
Contributor guide
Research direction
No source file, test, or entry point is named. Reproduce the Hyper-V ISO driver failure on Windows 11 with the provided Packer version, then locate the privilege check and add focused coverage for the reported group-membership case. Done means valid users can create the Hyper-V driver without the reported false failure.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100