Windows – How to enable Hyper-V in Windows 8

In order to get the VM connected to the internet you have to tie it to the Ethernet/Wireless NIC Card. In order to do this you have to create a "Virtual Switch".

1. Open your Hyper-V Manager

2. Select Action --> Virtual Switch Manager

   

3. Select External and then Create Virtual Switch

   

4. Give the Switch a Name and then select the External Controller you use to connect to the internet (Ethernet, or Wireless NIC, etc,.)

   Note: You must select the way that you are actually connecting to the internet. IE, if your computer is set up to use Wifi or Ethernet, but is currently using Ethernet, you must use Ethernet - the Wifi connection will not work because the host machine isn't currently using it.

   

5. Select Apply and then OK

6. Right click on the Virtual Machine you want to connect and select Settings

   

7. Under the Network Adapter Setting select the newly created Virtual Switch

This should enable the connection you use to connect to the internet to be accessible to the VM

Note: you may have to do a ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew (Windows) or a sudo dhclient -v -r and sudo dhclient -v (Linux) on the remote machine to get it to renew its DHCP settings and retrieve an IP address.

According to this post, you need to have the latest versions of the BIOS to work with Hyper-V and enable to the Virtualization:

The older versions of bios didn't have that option, but it was enabled by default. The latest releases 1202, 1305 versions, have the option to enable or disable, the virtualization feature.

There are two places that this could potentially be:

1. This SU Post suggests it's found under "Intel Virtualization Technology"
2. This SU Post suggests the option is under "Secure Virtual Machine Mode" in Advanced-->CPU Configuration

I would check for both.

Since Hyper-V uses a Hypervisor this is necessary in order to enable the Win Phone 8 emulator.