Changes

As outlined in the above figure, each virtual machine for which networking is configured has a one or more virtual network adapteradapters configured. This Each adapter is connected, in turn, to a virtual network switch running in the parent partition. This In the above example, two virtual networks have been configured, one ''external'' and the other ''internal''. These virtual network switch provides switches provide connectivity, depending . Depending on the configuration of the selected virtual networkassociated with the switch, to connectivity will be provided between the virtual machine and the parent partition, other virtual machines on the same virtual network and access or to the external network via a physical network adapter installed in the host system.

To avoid confusion, it is important to note that there is one virtual switch for each virtual network configured in the Hyper-V environment. In fact, pre-release versions of Hyper-V referred to creating ''Virtual Network Switches'' rather than ''Virtual Networks''.