Windows 11 Hyper-V on Windows 11

I upgraded my laptop to Windows 11 last week, I enabled Hyper-V and installed Windows 11 Pro on a VM, everything seems to work fine except internet connection. I searched the web and found a few things that I tried and only one ended up working temporary.

I launched Hyper-V Manager and went into Virtual Switch Manager and created an External virtual switch which I linked to my wireless adapter. The first time I launch the Windows 11 VM I had Internet connectivity, after maybe about an hour (or less) of using the VM browsing the Internet, all of a sudden I have no more Internet connection. I shut it down, restart the VM and still no connection. The only way it seems to work is if I delete the Virtual Switch, save changes and then recreate the External Virtual Switch again, launch VM and now I have Internet again.

Any ideas why I would lose connection and then it not seeing the connection anymore?

you should be able to use the built in Default Switch and just use that without having to create your own External virtual switch. Creating your own way back in the day used to be the only way, but since the Anniversary update or thereabouts in Windows 10, they introduced a default switch that should get you internet access via NAT without having to do anything.

pparks1 said:

you should be able to use the built in Default Switch and just use that without having to create your own External virtual switch. Creating your own way back in the day used to be the only way, but since the Anniversary update or thereabouts in Windows 10, they introduced a default switch that should get you internet access via NAT without having to do anything.

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I tried the "Default Switch" that's the connection I chose when I initially created the VM and it never connected to Internet, that's why I had to create and Eternal virtual switch.