I was trying to install a small development environment on my Surface Book and of course I wanted to use Hyper-V for that. I got Windows Server 2012 and a SQL Server 2014 setup in no time and was actually surprised how well the virtual machine was running... Until I wanted to install the SharePoint PreReqs and realized I had no Internet access. I hope someday, virtualization software will come with one simple button: "Share Internet from Host? Yes/No". But until then, we will always have to work around some restrictions. Those restrictions make sense in a business / company sense, but not for small development environments on notebooks.
So here's how you will get Internet access!
1. Open your
Hyper-V Manager
2. Go to the
Actions
pane and select
Virtual Switch Manager
3. Select an existing switch or create a new virtual switch
4. I you created a new switch, choose a name. In any case you will have to select
External network
under
Connection type
. Save your changes!
5. Go back to your
Hyper-V Manager
and select your VM. Change the Network Adapter to your newly created switch and your done!
