
That’s the same command that you’d use for an offline guest, as well. Use Add-VMNetworkAdapter to add a network adapter to a running Hyper-V guest. Otherwise, they’re all called “Network Adapter”. I always recommend PowerShell to work with second or higher network adapters to a virtual machine. How to Use PowerShell to Add or Remove a Virtual Network Adapter from a Running Hyper-V Guest I did not encounter any issues with the various operating systems that I tested.

The guest operating system may need an additional push to realize that a change was made.

A discussion on Device Naming will appear in a different article. Meaning, you can bring a version 5.0 virtual machine over from 2012 R2 to 2016 and hot add a virtual network adapter. The virtual machine configuration version does not matter if you do not attempt to use Device Naming.

Last week I showed you how to hot add/remove memory in Hyper-V 2016 and this week I’m covering another super handy new feature that system admins will also love.
