Hi, I've got a problem connecting Hyper-V guest VMs to the internet. I created a Parallels (Desk 12 Pro) VM of Win10Pro, with 2 network cards - in bridged mode. This Win10Pro guest OS works well, both MACs are seen by the router and the correct local IP addresses are given to them. In the Win10Pro VM I added Hyper-V. Then created a single Win10 Hyper-V guest VM. To connect this Hyper-V guest I created an External Virtual Switch to one of the network cards. And that only partially works. The router can see the MAC address of the Hyper-V guest, and it gives it an IP address. From the Hyper-V guest I can ping the host. But when I try to connect to any other ip address (local and internet) I get either "Destination host unreachable" or "Request timed out". Can anyone help? (If I make the network connection "Shared" mode in the outer Parallels VM, then both the Win10Pro VM and the Hyper-V guest can connect to the internet. But I cannot reach them to connect via Remote Desktop - which is what I need to do...) Many Thanks!
Hello @GarethP1 Set the virtual machine networks settings to Bridged network and change DNS to settings to manual. Enter the preferred DNS IP address same as your host and check if you're able to ping. Please update us with the results. If the issue persists, please share the screenshot of the IP configuration on the host and as well as on the Hyper guest OS.
Hi Dinesh - thanks for getting back to me. I changed the DNS to manual in the HyperV guest and set the preferred DNS to match the (working) HyperV host - 10.0.1.1 Afraid it didn't work. Here's the screen shot of the HyperV guest's ipconfig /all output And here's the same for the HyperV host
Hello @GarethP1 Are you able to ping any website inside the Hyper-V virtual machine? Did you created virtual switch as "external" ?
Yes the virtual switch is external. (I can ping the virtual switch from another physical machine) Afraid that I cannot ping any website from inside the Hyper-V virtual machine. (The only thing I can ping from the Hyper-V VM is the Hyper-V Host.)
Hi, Generally speaking, if VM without HyperV works sucessfully in bridge mode, then Hyper-V VMs should also work in bridge to wired ethernet. But HyperV-VMs will not ever work on bridge to WiFi. It is internal limitation of current version of Parallels Desktop, since things become too complicated while WiFi: it requires rather complex substitution of MAC-addresses..
Thanks Elric. You've solved my problem! Just as you said - by using wired not wireless connection. I can now see the HyperV inner VM from across my network.
