In this tutorial, I am going to discuss “External Network” connectivity. The External Network allows you to access the internet on your virtual machine. When you setup the external network, the virtual switch is connected to a physical network adapter (Ethernet or Wi-Fi) which provides connectivity between the physical network, the Hyper-V host, and the virtual machine.

Setting up External Network for virtual machines

• Open the network connections and verify any network device is connected to your system. If you follow the below image, It says that the Wi-Fi device is connected to my system.

• Now, go to your Windows machine’s run command dialog box and type “virtmgmt.msc” and click OK.

• Once Hyper-V manager is open, kindly right click on the host name which is coming under “Hyper-V Manager”, and click on the option  “Virtual Switch Manager”

• Select the virtual switch type “External” and click on “Create Virtual Switch”

• Give the name of the virtual network switch, select the connection type “External Network” and select the connected network adapter as we have seen at the first step. Click on “Apply”

 

After applying the changes, you are done with setting up the external network to access the internet on your virtual machine.

Hope, this article helps you to resolve your internet connectivity issue on Hyper-V virtual machines.