I am new to Hyper-v although I have use VirtualBox for many years.
I have installed H-V in Windows 8.1 64-bit and then I installed Windows 10 as a guest. I then installed an External Virtual Switch(EVS) and connected it to the wired Ethernet card (Realtek). This PC has one wired card and Wi-Fi.
After the EVS is installed, the host loses Internet access and the guest is not connected to a network. Under control panel, I see the EVS adapter and how it replaces the wired adapter. The EVS has the same IP as the wired adapter.
I seem to not under stand networking in Hyper-v. In VirtualBox, I would bridge the guest adapter to the physical adapter to put the guest on the same subnet as the host, or I would use NAT to create a different subnet for the guest.
I realize that using a hypervisor is different than using VirtualBox and I need some pointers to give the guest Internet access and not affect the host.
Thank you!
** After I posted the message, I saw that the host EVS did not copy static DNS from the wired adapter. I entered the DNS servers and the host has internet access. (The host uses a static IP.)
** In the VM, I added a network adapter and connected it to the EVS, and the guest is still not connected to a network and it is getting a link-local address 169.254.x.x.
** Fixed **
I gave the VM a static IP and now it has Internet access!
?? Should I assume that if the host uses Static IP, that the guest VM's must use static IP's as well?