KB2923885 – WS2012 VMs With SR-IOV on WS2012 R2 Hyper-V Incorrectly Say Integration Components Require Upgrade

Microsoft has released a KB article to confirm a problem where Hyper-V Manager incorrectly reports "Update required" for the Hyper-V integration services in Windows Server 2012 guest operating systems that use SR-IOV on Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts.

Symptoms

Assume that you have a Windows Server 2012 R2-based Hyper-V server. A Windows Server 2012-based guest operating system that has integration services up to date and that uses Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is running on the server. After you restart the guest operating system, Hyper-V Manager incorrectly reports the integration services state of the guest operating system as Update required.

Status

This is a known issue of Windows Server 2012 R2. Except for the status report, there are no negative effects to the Hyper-V system.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem.

You can ignore this annoying warning. I suspect that if the warning status appears in VMM then it is really annoying. But very few of you should be affected because SR-IOV is not needed by many VMs.

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