Vista - Shutdown and startup Hyper-V Virtual Machine via script

Hi,

I have tried some scripts for shutting down a virtual machine without success.

What I need is a command for shutting down and starting up a named virtual
machine in Hyper-V like:

Shutdown "SERVERNAME"
Startup "SERVERNAME"

Can it be that simple?


/FC

FC wrote:what's wrong with shutdown -r -f -m machine-name?

starting up is another stoty.. haven't tried WOL on virtual machines yet.

Then again, you could simply try using WMI

Option Explicit



Dim WMIService

Dim VMList

Dim VMName



'Specify the name of the virtual machine that I want to start

VMName = "TestVM"



'Get instance of 'virtualization' WMI service on the local computer

Set WMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\virtualization")



'Query for the specific virtual machine that I want to start

Set VMList = WMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Msvm_ComputerSystem
WHERE ElementName='" & VMName & "'")



' Request a state change on the first VM that is returned

' 2 = start, 3 = stop and 32769 = save state

VMList.ItemIndex(0).RequestStateChange(2)



You can copy, adjust and save all these lines as a VBScript (e.g.
StartVM.vbs) by using notepad. And then you can run this VBScript.



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There is a powershell library you can use to leverage PS with Hyper-V -
that's what I'm doing:

http://www.codeplex.com/PSHyperv

Then I can issue thusly at the command line:

powershell.exe "& {. 'C:\test\hyperv.ps1';Start-VM CALMACIL}"
powershell.exe "& {. 'C:\test 1\hyperv.ps1';Suspend-VM CALMACIL}"

It currently throws a warning but the script DOES work in regards to
starting/stopping/pausing the VM.

Blake


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