Hyper-V with a single host NIC

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Published on 2012-11-11T16:43:07Z Indexed on 2012/11/11 17:03 UTC
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I'm trying to create a simple Hyper-V test machine, and am having more problems than expected with the basic networking.

All other hypervisors I've used (vmware server, vmware player, virtualbox) allow me to use the default single NIC in my machine, and then create guests with "bridged" mode so they appear like a normal machine on the network.

With the Hyper-V server, when I create a Virtual Switch and set it to "external", I lose all network access from the host.

The solutions I've seen online seem to rely on complex configurations requiring multiple vSwitches and RRAS on the host to get it going.

Is it really that complex to get a simple, single-NIC Hyper-V server going, in such a way that I can still use the host?

The host is Windows 8.

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