Chapter 16. Client Hyper-V

We’ll end this book with a real-world story of how Jean-Pierre R M de Tiege, a Build Manager with the Government Gateway team at Microsoft, resolved an interesting problem involving Windows 8 Client Hyper-V, wireless networking, and network bridge functionality all running on his laptop.

Wireless networking and network bridge

Having received a new laptop, I decided to install Windows 8 in order to experiment with the OS. After installation, I joined it to the domain from a remote location and created two virtual machines to make use of Hyper-V under Windows 8 and use alternative OS environments, such as Windows 7 and Ubuntu.

After initial success in hooking up these virtual machines through a network adapter to an Ethernet ...

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