Copy a File From the Host to a VM Using a Powershell Script
Copying a file from the host into a VM is easy with Powershell and you can embed it into a script.
The syntax is:
Copy-VMFile "Test VM" -SourcePath "C:\FileOnHost.txt" -DestinationPath "D:\FolderInsideVM\file.txt" -CreateFullPath -FileSource Host
The above command will also create the target folder if it doesn’t exist.
You could use this command to push software installers into the VM, or update VM-interal scripts, for example.
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