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Anders
Anders

Reputation: 1042

Hyper-V kills internet connection when bridging

I am using Hyper-V for the first time (running Windows 8). When I create a new virtual network switch, external, it bridges the VMs network adapter with the WiFi - and that for some reason kills the WiFi's internet connection. Why, and what could I be doing wrong?

Thanks, A.

Upvotes: 23

Views: 43294

Answers (9)

Michael DK
Michael DK

Reputation: 1

I had the very same issue. Turns out it was VMware Player 17 that was at play. I removed it, and everything went flawless. I guess there was some VMware virtual internet driver making HyperV's life hard.

Upvotes: 0

Pavel Anpin
Pavel Anpin

Reputation: 44

I was able to fix such an issue by disabling Internet sharing on the wireless adapter, creating an Internal virtual switch in Hyper-V first, then disabling VMWare bridge on all involved interfaces, then I made a bridge in Network sharing center by selecting my internal switch and Wi-Fi adapter and after that I was able to select external network in Virtual switch manager in Hyper-V

Upvotes: 0

Mohamed F
Mohamed F

Reputation: 869

Maybe you unchecked by accident the Allow management OS to share this network adapter setting that is enabled by default. Disabling this setting will leave your hypervisor OS without network connectivity.

Upvotes: 0

Chrétien Wetemans
Chrétien Wetemans

Reputation: 29

I had a static ip-address in my ethernet adapter. Removed the static entry. Made my external virtual switch. Had the extra vEthernet adapter, made my static entries (ip-address, dns-server) in this adapter. Everything is working fine now.

Chris

Upvotes: 2

dave
dave

Reputation: 7

I ran into the same problem too. I don't know for sure, but after trying all of the solutions above and any others I could find, I renamed my virtual switch to 'realtek' (the type of network card I have installed) instead of taking the default name that I think was 'new virtual switch'. Something else I did may have solved the problem (I modified everything I could find for two days), but I think renaming it is what finally gave me internet access to the vm.

Upvotes: -2

Benjamin Wang
Benjamin Wang

Reputation: 1

I ran into the same problem recently when creating an external switch in Hyper-V. Long story short, every time an external switch was created, it would bring my ethernet connection down on my host laptop. I had wifi connection option also but disabled it to just strictly troubleshoot the ethernet network adapter.

I brought down the VM, once turned off, deleted the external network adapter from hyper V virtual switch manager. On the host machine, disabled and re-enabled the network adapter from within network connections (ethernet). Once connected, I brought the VM back online FIRST, then created the external switch second which connected with no issues. Verified I was able to access outside world aka internet on both host and VM.

Upvotes: 0

Beau
Beau

Reputation: 29

If you have VirtualBoxinstalled, check if any of the Hyper-V virtual adapters/bridge connection has the VirtualBox Bridged Networking Driver ticked in the connection properties. If they do, simply untick this service where it is present and this should fix it up for you. No need to uninstall VirtualBox.

Upvotes: 2

Adrian Frühwirth
Adrian Frühwirth

Reputation: 45576

I just ran into the same problem, losing the internet connection when creating the virtual switch. Uninstalling VirtualBox which I had installed at the same time fixed the problem for me (just disabling the VBox adapters was not enough), so they seem to be unable to happily coexist.

Upvotes: 1

Luuk
Luuk

Reputation: 1969

I had the same problem, it takes a couple of seconds to setup the connection again. Check this tutorial: https://superuser.com/questions/469806/windows-8-hyper-v-how-to-give-vm-internet-access

Upvotes: 1

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