Create a Hyper Guest for SSH with no IP Address

When setting up the Hyper-V Guest hosts, I found it a little tricky and hard to find documentation on how to easily set these up, so I thought I would share how I got them into a configuration with the most simple process. With this setup you can also SSH into the Guest Host even if you do not have an IP address exposed on the Guest Network Adaptor.

To make thing even more simple I am using the pre-selected OS versions from the Hyper-V quick create options, but the steps should also work on other versions.

Windows Virtual Machine

In these steps below you will create an Windows Virtual Machine(VM) with the version ‘Windows 10 dev environment’

1. Install and Open Hyper-V
2. Click Quick Create from the menu on the right
3. Select Windows 10 dev environment from the menu and create it
4. Follow all the details from the wizard as requested.
5. Once completed start and login to your machine
6. Run these commands:
   Install Open SSH
   Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name OpenSSH.Client~~~~0.0.1.0

Find out how to setup Linux Virtual Machines and SSH key from the orginal post > https://prcode.co.uk/2021/03/17/setup-hyper-guest-for-ssh-without-ip-address/