How to setup a hyper-v domain with internet access

Posted by fynnbob on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by fynnbob
Published on 2011-07-28T14:06:10Z Indexed on 2013/06/30 22:22 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 213

First off let me say that I'm not a network admin or server guy, I know very little about that stuff. What I'm trying to do is setup a virtualized domain using hyper-V. Here is the configuration:

Physical Server:

  • 4Mb RAM
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 running Hyper-V

Virtual Environment:

  • One Domain Controller running Windows Server 2008 R2
  • One Client running Windows Server 2008 R2

I have been successful in setting up a virtual domain controller and adding a virtual client to that domain controller but I'm stuck at trying to give the virtual Environment Internet access. I can give the client VM Internet access if I remove them from the virtual domain but once I add them back to the virtual domain, Internet access is gone.

I've read articles describing many different ways this can be done (using RRAS with NAT, using a wireless connection, etc...) but all of those articles only cover a small piece of the setup and also seem to be geared towards people who know there way around networking and servers which I don't. I'd like to know more but my thing is software development and I have my hands full trying to keep up with everything in that realm. I simply want to setup a virtual domain with Internet access for testing.

Can anyone point me to any "for Dummy's" type information on how to setup this type of environment or can anyone provide this kind of step-by-step help. Any help would be very much appreciated.

© Server Fault or respective owner

Related posts about hyper-v

Related posts about domain-controller