I was working from home last night and kick started my Hyper-V VM to VPN to the client development environment (in order to remote to the development machine.. don’t get ne started on the 3 or 4 computer hop) when i found that my image wouldn’t connect via my wireless connection. I did some digging and it turns out that Hyper V does not support connecting via a wireless adapter by default. (There are apparently good reasons for this.)
It requires a small amount of configuration kung-fu. I found this great article by Ben Armstrong a virtualisation manager at Microsoft outlining how to resolve this issue
To paraphrase
- Create a new internal network on the virtual network manager – i called mine wireless
- Open network and sharing and find the wireless network adapter on your machine (make sure you have the actual adapter and not a wireless network you can connect to).
- Right-click and find properties and select the sharing tab
- Check the Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection checkbox
You’re done. Assign the internal network adapter to your hyper-v image and enjoy.
