I just wasted a couple of hours troubleshooting this error 0xE000100 while installing Windows 2012 R2 on VMM 2012 SP1 (older version). At first I thought there was some data corruption, ended up downloading the ISO again, to no avail. Then I thought maybe you cannot install R2 on older VMM. I started googling the requirements for 2012 R2. After much googling I found out the problem. I created the VM with dynamic RAM, using the default 512MB startup and 10GB max. THAT is the problem. Check this out: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn387077.aspx Under setup for virtual machines section, they say: If you create a virtual machine with the minimum supported hardware parameters…