Use WMI to create a VM with PowerShell
A function to create a new Hyper-V virtual machine using WMI, with the ability to create the VM on a remote host. Also allows for specifiying the target location.
function New-HyperVVM { param (
[string]$Hypervhost = "localhost",
[string]$Vm = "VM Courtesy of PowerShell",
[string]$location = "C:\MyVirtualMachines\$vm"
)
$wmiClassString = "\\" + $Hypervhost + "\root\virtualization:Msvm_VirtualSystemGlobalSettingData"
$wmiclass = [WMIClass]$wmiClassString
$newVSGlobalSettingData = $wmiClass.CreateInstance()
$newVSGlobalSettingData.psbase.Properties.Item("ExternalDataRoot").value = $location
$newVSGlobalSettingData.psbase.Properties.Item("ElementName").value = $Vm
$VSManagementService = gwmi MSVM_VirtualSystemManagementService -namespace "root\virtualization" -ComputerName $Hypervhost
$GlobalSettings = $newVSGlobalSettingData.psbase.GetText(1)
$VSManagementService.DefineVirtualSystem($GlobalSettings, $ResourceSettings)
}About this post
Posted: 2017-12-17
By: ASchneider
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Categories
Scripting
Hyper-V
Powershell
Windows
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