I have a test environment that I host from my computer. I have configured an external switch so that it can be accessed by others.
If we take a look inside the Hyper-V Manager we can see that we have: "Hyper-V Manager" and under it we have connection to the local machine. We also have the possibility to add a new connection by connecting a server.
So can I host my PC's Hyper-V Instance as a server in the domain and would that make my peers able to connect to it as a new instance in their Hyper-V Manager?
Is it possible to share Hyper-V Manager or my instance of it, so that other people can use snapshots and the other functions that Hyper-V manager have to offer?
I'm thankful for all help!
Yes, it is possible for other users to manage your machines Hyper-V instance with Hyper-V Manager run on a different machine, as long as they have the correct privileges. Which I believe it's up to you or the domain admin to set.
Check out this blog post if it may help you. Good luck!
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I'm a software engineer who knows little about domains/AD/DHCP and the rest, But I have a project where I need to test with 2 domains and let's say a SQL Server that has users from both domains. (It's not really SQL Server but I don't think that matters). Anyway, I installed Hyper-V and then Windows Server 2019. The VM came up and I couldn't see the network at all. After some fiddling (I think I set up a static IP address) the VM could then see the network. Then I promoted it to be a domain controller and lost all network access. I can't ping anything on our local network and nothing outside either. I know there's probably no simple answer, but any guidance would be much appreciated.
After rebooting is it possible to open a Hyper-V virtual machine without going through the Manager? It seems like it is already running in the background or maybe it is just in its last state.
If the OS in the Hyper-V virtual allows for remoting and also it is on the same network as the attempt to open a remote desktop to that virtual.
Note that the default network adapter for a virtual will provide a different IP address than what the local network provides to the server. You will most likely want to create a network adapter (in Hyper-V) which shares the network card to the virtual and the virtual will get its IP address from the local network.
If you can ping it, then it can be remoted to..but other things within the virtual has to allow for remoting.
Upon reading the OPs comments, it is clear that the need is to launch the virtual outside of Hyper-V. Hyper-V uses VMConnect.exe to achieve that...and that is available.
One can do that in an elevated Powershell shell such as:
vmconnect {Local/remote computer name} {Virtual Name}
such as
vmconnect Hyperion W10-Zephyr
where Hyperion is the local computer name and W10-Zephyr is the virtual's name.
See also Connecting to Hyper-V virtual machines with PowerShell
I have been trying to setup a Win7 VM on Hyper-v that connects to the internet through my Win 8 host machine.
I can't seem to figure out why the VM can't ever get passed limited connectivity. Any ideas?
NO sure why but all I had to do was Disable/enable the vEthernet adapter and everything worked great!
Check that you have a Virtual Switch with an "External Network" using the Virtual Switch Manager.
The other network types offer VM isolation. If your VM is on an "Private Network" it can only talk to other VMs on the server. The "Internal Network" allows VMs can talk to other VMs and to the host.
In contrast, an External Network allows the VM to contact machines on the network that the host is attached to.
I worked on this issue for a while myself after upgrading to Windows 8.1 and losing connectivity. Added and removed the adapter to no avail. The solution was to upgrade the VM's Integration Services.
I had the same issue because my DHCP settings on my guest VM was setup wrong.
So check the DHCP setting if they are on obtain automatically.
Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections
Network adapter properties -> Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) -> Properties ->
Obtain DNS server address automatically
I have had great success with Hyper-V and windows 8 and windows 10 virtuals using external switches with a Windows 8.1 host. Unfortunately I could not get the external switch to ever work on windows xp virtual running under Hyper-V. Instead, after reading a lot of sites/suggestions, I followed this guide to bridge an internal virtual switch (with Hyper-V legacy network adapter for XP) to the host wifi. I hope this saves someone else some time when working on an XP virtual.
Using Hyper-V with a Wireless Network Adapter
I am running windows server 2008 in vmware workstation and there I have installed sharepoint 2010.
How can I view a sharepoint site from my host machine, so from my windows 7?
Any ideas? Thank you
It depends on the network configuration you assigned to your VM. If you didn't isolate your VM, you should be able to ping it from your host (assuming they share the same network settings - subnet mask, gateway, ip class, ...) and access your SharePoint site from the host.
Also make sure that the native firwall on your server is allowing inbound / outbound connection with the relevant port (at least :80).
Cheers.
I'm running Server 2008 64bit with Hyper-V. I've created a virtual machine with Vista 64bit and installed it. I can't get the Vista virtual machine to see the network adapter.
I've set-up an external network on the Virtual Network Manager (Hyper-V) and associated that with the virtual machine (Vista). I've also tried using a Legacy Network Adapter but that didn't work either although that time the Vista machine saw the network card but couldn't connect through it.
This is (obviously) the first time I've tried to set-up a virtual machine.
Any ideas?
EDIT: I notice that this question has been voted down a couple of times. I know that it's not a programming question but I'm a developer setting up a virtual machine to test my C#/ASP.NET code on and thought that other developers may hit this problem as well when they're doing this...
I don't know Hyper-V, but I know in VMWare you can create a network connection in Bridged mode (meaning the VM will get it's own IP address via DHCP if that's enabled) or host-only mode (meaning the VM can only communicate with the host). When Vista could see the card, could it communicate with the host machine (which would indicate a host-only connection was specified)? What kind of IP address did it have (I would guess Hyper-V has a built-in DHCP server like VMWare does?) -- that might give additional clues.
Sorry I don't know Hyper-V better...
Make sure you have the Hyper-V Tools installed on the Guest VM. You shouldn't need the legacy adapter.
You also may want to make sure you have all of the latest updates which may have addressed your issue. Particularly, KB950050
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950050
It turns out that Vista x64 running as a VM through Hyper-V doesn't support the virtual network connection/card and that you have to set it up as a legacy network card. When I eventually got the config settings correct for the legacy network and disable the virtual network it connected.
Thanks for the help guys - much appreciated!