Hyper-V Virtual Switch Internal with NAT -Update-

This is a quick blog post to correct a “legacy blog” I made in January this year..

I haven’t been using any VM’s on my Surface for a long time, since then new Windows 10 builds have arrived. As Thomas Maurer discribes here things have changed.

If you were running the commands in my previous blog and have been using it you have come to the conclusion (I hope sooner as me 🙂 ) that the Nat VSwitch is gone and the VM’s depending on it have no network connection.

You can recreate it as internal VSwitch like this:


New-VMSwitch -Name VSwitch-NAT -SwitchType Internal
New-NetIPAddress –IPAddress 10.10.0.1 -PrefixLength -InterfaceAlias "vEthernet (VSwitch-NAT)"
New-NetNat –Name NATnetwork –InternalIPInterfaceAddressPrefix 10.10.0.0/24

But you will run in to an issue with the last command.

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Windows Mobile 10 build 10581

Today I received the new Windows Mobile 10 build 10581 from the fast ring Insider Preview. For me there were a couple of things that were really bad in de last couple of builds. In the previous builds you were not able to set the data usage limit on a monthly schedule. After saving nothing … Read more