Hyperv driver privilege checks fail

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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.