How to Create a Windows-7 Virtual Machine with Hyper-V

Connecting Virtual Machines to the Network

To connect virtual machines to the network, You need to make one virtual network switch using Virtual Switch Manager.

1. Virtual Switch Manager

Accessing the Virtual Switch Manager is quite easy, do the following:

• Back to Hyper-V Manager, then on section Action, select Virtual Switch Manager

2. Creating a New Virtual Switch

To create a new virtual switch, on Virtual Switch Manager do the following steps:

1. In section Virtual Switches, click New virtual network switch
2. In section Create virtual switch, click External
3. Then click the button Create Virtual Switch

4. On the field Name, type a name for Virtual Switch, example: V_LAN
5. On Connection type, select External network, select an available network device, then click Allow management operating system to share this network adapter
6. Click OK

7. If confirmation appears “Apply Network Change” click Yes

3. Changing Network Settings on a Virtual Machine

After creating a new virtual switch, You need to change the network settings on the virtual machine to use it on the virtual machine. To do it, do the following steps:

• On Hyper-V Manager, right click on the virtual machine name, then click Settings

1. In section Hardware, select Network
2. Then on Virtual switch, select the name of the virtual switch that was created previously
3. Click OK

Virtual Machine Network Setup is complete. Next is to run the virtual machine.