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So you want to use passthough disks with Hyper-V cool – but how do you script attaching them? Well here’s your answer… But first you need to decide if you are going to attach them to the virtual IDE controller or the virtual SCSI controller.
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Ben Armstrong (aka Virtual PC Guy) posted some great VBScript and PowerShell KVP scripts. These are a great edition to some of my earlier scripts ( Adding Host KVP's , Adding Guest KVP's , Modifying KVP’s ). Check them out if your looking
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PDC is just around the corner now – I am giving the dry run of my talk tomorrow morning, so of course I am working on my demo’s today… Just to give you a bit of a teaser here’s one of the scripts that I am using in one of my demo’s… This script
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Many of you know I have been a fan of PowerShellPlus for quite a while, but I was turned on to a new editor the other day that’s pretty slick – PowerGUI . Winner of this years Windows IT Pro Magazine’s Best of Tech Ed IT Pro Breakthrough Product Award
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I got a great question based on yesterday’s post (by the way my e-mail was blocking a lot of external messages that’s fixed now so I apologize to anyone I missed a mail from). The person was asking how they could figure out what physical disk
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Hyper-V WMI Documentation First off I am happy to say the Hyper-V WMI documentation is finally post beta quality! I want to personally thank a few members of the test team for writing much of the sample code and working very hard to get it posted.
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Hyper-V will be well represented at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this year. Additional sessions where posted today ( http://www.microsoftpdc.com/Agenda/Sessions.aspx ) and they include two Hyper-V sessions. The first is Developing
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Hyper-V has a WMI API that will allow you to create a thumbnail image of any running or paused virtual machine. You can create any sized thumbnail you want (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 etc…). Creating the image is pretty easy, you just call
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On Sunday I showed how to add registry keys to the guest from the host ( Hyper-V WMI: KVP Exchange aka Data Exchange (Adding New Items From Parent/Host) ) and on Monday I showed how to read registry key’s written by the guest from the host ( Hyper-V WMI-
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Yesterday’s post ( Hyper-V WMI: KVP Exchange aka Data Exchange (Adding New Items From Parent/Host) ) showed how to add registry key’s into the guest so that the guest could receive information from the host. Today’s post will show how to add a registry
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I have gotten a ton of questions about the KVP Exchange or Data Exchange Integration Component… So what is it and how do I use it? The KVP Integration component allows the guest and host to query and provide information to each via pairs of
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Since I did my last post on snapshots I have gotten several comments and few e-mails asking how to map ReturnValues to actual human readable strings. I guess not every one just knows that 32773 is Invalid Parameter… Well after many hours of asking and
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After I finished writting this I relized it got a bit long... - I guess I had a lot to talk about! Hope you enjoy it (or at least find it mildly useful) Hyper-V implements a feature known as snapshots, this should not be confused with a SAN snapshot or
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Hyper-V virtual machines have configuration options that control what happens when the parent/host server shuts down, start’s up, or if a virtual machine’s worker process terminates unexpectedly. The first two conditions (parent/host shutdown, startup)
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I have officially given up on the “Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell Scripts” serious, not because of lack of interest but because or extreme interest implying that I would need to do Part 5, 6, 7, 99… Counting past 5 is hard so from now on I will just title
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