DisplayLink Forum - View Single Post - Lose network connection on dock when creating virtual switch in Hyper-V

scottws · 10-29-2014, 12:22 PM

I concur with ggreiginsights. I recently moved from a Dell Latitude laptop using a traditional laptop dock to a Dell XPS12 that uses a DisplayLink-based dock and discovered this problem almost immediately.

Hyper-V is a built-in, core component of Windows 8.1 and is used by many IT developers, systems administrators, and network administrators. DisplayLink absolutely needs to revisit the decision to not implement a driver that leverages the new Windows API included in Windows 8.1. People need to use Hyper-V on machines that use DisplayLink, but they also need the network to function!

I've currently resorted to using a different no-cost desktop virtualization product, but it has nowhere near the performance of Windows' built-in Hyper-V and doesn't do dynamic vRAM.

10-29-2014, 12:22 PM	#9
scottws Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2014 Posts: 1	I concur with ggreiginsights. I recently moved from a Dell Latitude laptop using a traditional laptop dock to a Dell XPS12 that uses a DisplayLink-based dock and discovered this problem almost immediately. Hyper-V is a built-in, core component of Windows 8.1 and is used by many IT developers, systems administrators, and network administrators. DisplayLink absolutely needs to revisit the decision to not implement a driver that leverages the new Windows API included in Windows 8.1. People need to use Hyper-V on machines that use DisplayLink, but they also need the network to function! I've currently resorted to using a different no-cost desktop virtualization product, but it has nowhere near the performance of Windows' built-in Hyper-V and doesn't do dynamic vRAM.