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Connecting Hyper-V Windows Machines to Network

I have following the instructions on a few different tutorials and am unable to get a working network connection in my Windows VM. I have two different VMs I want to run at the same time. A Windows 10 and a Windows 7 machine. Here are two I tried:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfauedEoh3E
http://www.technig.com/connect-hyper-v-machines-to-internet/

Every one I read provides different steps - and not one works. External switches, internal switches, Hyper-V switches, VM switches, and adapters in the VM itself. Dynamic IPs and static IPs. This is nuts!

Is there a definitive set of of instructions that actually works?

Kevin

Serge Fournier

Close the vm

Just set the virtual adapter (in vm config) to bridged
(never did that in hyperv, but it's the same procédure in virtualbox and vmware)

It will get a ip from your router and be in the same network (intranet) as your computer

zorvek (Kevin Jones)

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There is no "bridge" option for the VM's virtual adapter.

Kevin

zorvek (Kevin Jones)

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This is what I have at the moment:

Hyper-V External Adapter:

VM Switch:

Physical machine's network connections:

Kevin

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Serge Fournier

here is a tool disk to install on the client
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9GC_YitjkOxdUw4MmpIUzhtZjA/view?usp=sharingVmGuest.iso

it might change something for you if your client was too old (not a fully patched windows 7)

zorvek (Kevin Jones)

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I'm still not sure why things didn't work. I repeatedly created and deleted many virtual switches without any luck for hours. Then, after trying the simplest approach one more time - what I listed above in my second post - without success, I called a network security buddy. While talking to him but without having done anything, it started working. We surmised that it just took a while to get a dynamic IP assigned to the VM's switch. He suggested using static IPs in the future if it stopped working again. I can on one box but my other is a laptop that I use on different networks.

In any event, it's working flawlessly now. Thank you!

Kevin