Cannot create external switch on Hyper-V

Question

I am getting the following error when creating an external switch on Hyper-V:

I am running Windows 8.1 x64.

My switch settings are as follows:

Event viewer gives me the following errors in Applications and Services Logs -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Hyper-V-VMMS in the order of logging:

1) Timed out trying to acquire network configuration lock, current owner = 'Binding Engine Task Queue Handler'.

2) Switch delete failed, switch = 'C8486DBE-CFB6-4355-99E3-19CD37C6D606': Operation times out (0x80041069).

3) Failed while removing virtual Ethernet switch.

Solution

If you can't cretae external switch on Hyper-V.

First you need to create a new internal virtual switch.In order to do that, kindly follow the below steps.

Open the Hyper-V Manager and select your server.

In your Hyper-V Manager window, Top of the screen to the left side the second option is "ACTION". Click on ACTION.

In the ACTION tab now select "NEW VIRTUAL NETWORK" and "INTERNAL" and click on "OK".

In machine, Go to

CONTROL PANEL ==> NETWORK AND SHARING CENTER ==> MANAGE NETWORK CONNECTIONS.

Now locate the active Wireless network adapter and do RIGHT click on the "PROPERTIES"

Click on "SHARING" tab and check the box which has the option "Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection".

Now go to Hyper-V manager and do "RIGHT" on the respective server and click on

SETTINGS ==> NETWORK ADAPTER ==> in virtual switch drop down choose the EXTERNAL VLAN (NAME YOU GIVEN) and enable the Virtual LAN identification.

Comments

[K. Pretorius]

did you solve this problem? I'm getting the same error and I have the same wireless network card :(

[rhughes]

@andrecarlucci Sorry, no solution yet. I stopped using Hyper-V in the end. It would be nice to learn why this happened though...

[mlt]

None of this helped in my case. I was surprised that I was able to create Internal Virtual Switch worked after I clicked Stop Service in Actions followed by Start Service

[chue x]

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