Windows 10: Duplicate vEthernet Switch Adapters?

I have two instances of a vEthernet Switch Adapter after installing a VM in Hyper V. I only have the default switch installed in Hyper V. How do I remove the greyed out adapter? Right clicking does not allow me to delete anything





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vEthernet (Default Switch) keeps replicating itself

Every once in a while, the "vEthernet (Default Switch)" on my laptop replicates itself ( e.g. "vEthernet (Default Switch) 2","vEthernet (Default Switch) 3", etc) and sets this new vSwitch as the default. Does anyone know how to stop this (apart from removing
Hyper-V - which I need).

I use Hyper-V on my laptop to host a couple of Linux Dev VMs - these utilise the "vEthernet (Default Switch)" adapter that is enabled with Hyper-V. Now this works great to allow my VMs to be NATted out to get updates, or connect with local servers that I
may need other resources from (e.g. file servers). In order that I can access these VMs through 3rd party tools such as MObaxterm or PHPstorm I set an additional IP ( e.g. 192.168.56.1) on the vEthernet: I need a static (local) IP on the VMs, as I am doing
website development, so I use a 192.168.56 address on them. This allows to me to test and debug my web apps effectively.

However, when the vSwitch replicates itself, it does not have the local IP I have set on the old vSwitch and I cannot add it to on the new vSwitch, until I have removed it from the previous one . Its either that or remove all the replicated vSwitches in
Device Manager and reboot, so it can create a new "vEthernet (Default Switch)". All in all it is major irritating - especiually as our work policy is that I need a seperate account to perform admin activties on my computer - so this usually involves typing
in these credentials 3 or 4 times to fix it.

I would really like to find a solution to this - I have contemplated moving to VirtualBox, but that seems daft considering I already have Hyper-V availble to me.

I suspect it may be something to do with the fact that I am using a laptop and have two work environments. I have my office setup with its own port replicator and screens, and my home office with a similar setup. The replication appears to happen when I
move from one environment to the other - but it does not happen all the time - maybe every week or two.

 

How to remove all the vEthernet (Default Switch) once and for all?





As in the screenshot above, I don't know why the vEthernet (Default Switch) on my Windows 10 laptop keeps reproducing itself and auto connecting to it everytime I shut down and switch on the laptop.

Worst is if I switch Wi-Fi networks, it auto connects to the vEthernet (Default Switch) even when i have pre-disabled it before

Please help me find out the root cause of this problem? E.g. :

1. Why this strange occurrence keeps happening (I suspect it is because I installed Docker?)
   
2. Why I can't seem to delete the vEthernet (Default Switch) from Network Connections
   
3. Why does it keep auto connecting to vEthernet (Default Switch) and how to permanently disable it?
   

 

How can I create a virtual switch which allows the virtual client to communicate with the host but not with the internet

The problem was that I used the Default Switch which uses as connection type internal. But the Default Switch does NAT. The following steps solved my problem:

1. Create a new virtual switch with connection type internal.
   
2. Assign a fix IP to the vEthernet adapter on the host (e.g.:192.168.1.1)
   
3. Assign a fix IP to the Ethernet adapter in the virtual machine (e.g.:192.168.1.2)
   

Like that I'm able to do a remote desktop connection from my host to my virtual machine and my virtual machine isn't connected to the internet.