DockerDesktopVM's network adapter

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Hi experts,
Afraid I’ve exhausted all my options and can’t help but to seek help in this forum.

Just upgraded to Docker Desktop for Windows v2.2.0 and found no DockerNAT amont NICs.
I saw a reply that DockerNAT is removed now thanks to better file sharing. So far, so good.

What I don’t understand is DockerDesktopVM has no network adapter(vSwitch) attached.

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But evertying works fine with containers on a bridge network.
I’d really appreciate any clarification/advice about what’s going on under the hood.
How can VM communicate inside/outside without any Hyper-V switch ?

Thank you so much for help.

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Sorry to necropost, but did you ever get an understanding of this? I have the same understanding gap and it’s driving me bananas…

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To reply to my own post here - i think i have wokred out that docker desktop now uses HVsockets to communicate between windows host and docker desktop vm / docker engine.