Hyper-V / Visual Studio Emulator for Android can't connect to network

Question

I'm on Windows 10 Pro x64, using the latest Visual Studio Emulator for Android (Jan 2016). I have wired and wireless NICs, the wireless is connected to the Internet, and the wired is disabled to avoid conflicts (as often advised in other answers). I am using DHCP.

I can run the Android VM in both Hyper-V and the emulator.

But the VM cannot connect to the network. Once the Hyper-V virtual switches are created, my host's network fails. To fix it, I manually set the TCP/IP v4 settings for that virtual switch connection - then the host can again see the network, but the guest still cannot.

The official docs specify use of DHCP , which is the case (I only use manual settings because it disconnects me).

How do I get both the host and guest to see the network?

Answer 1

This answer gave me the clue I needed .

I was using DHCP on the host, but on the router itself , there was an IP address static mapping. Removing that made the problem disappear!