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PowerShell is a powerful scripting language that can be used to manage various aspects of Hyper-V, Microsoft’s virtualization platform. Below are some common Hyper-V tasks and the corresponding PowerShell code to perform them. Remember to run PowerShell with administrator privileges when managing Hyper-V, as some tasks may require elevated permissions.   List all virtual machines: […]

Do you need a list of all virtual disks on a Hyper-V server? Simply run this PowerShell script and it will give you a list of all VHD and VHDX files that are connected to virtual machines in Hyper-V: $MyVMs = Get-VM Foreach ($MyVM in $MyVMs) { $AllHardDrives = $MyVM.HardDrives Foreach ($HardDriveItem in $AllHardDrives) { […]

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In this article we describe how to schedule a VMware snapshot in a task so that the snapshot creation is fully automated. This can be achieved very easily with just one command in the Windows Task Scheduler: Create a batch file with the command: vmrun -T ws snapshot “c:\virtualmachines\windows2019.vmx” mySnapshot Replace the VMX path with […]

To mount a VHDX to Windows as a drive using PowerShell, run the command: Mount-VHD -Path c:\my-folder\MyVirtualDisk.vhdx or Mount-VHD -Path c:\my-folder\MyVirtualDisk.vhdx -ReadOnly Then remove the drive again by using: Dismount-VHD -Path c:\my-folder\MyVirtualDisk.vhdx   This method can be used to copy files into a VM, for example, or  to copy files from one VM to another, […]

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 […]