Today I was working on how to manage Hyper-V virtual machines using WMI.
This VBS scripts can be modified to suit your needs…
Each script takes one argument “machine name”:
listvm.vbs – display all virtual machines on Hyper-V – this script will create a TXT file (you should edit path and filename inside the script) with all virtual machines that are on Hyper-V host. It will print names of the machines and current state (Running, Off, Saved)
sortvm.vbs – this script alphabeticaly sorts list of virtual machines (you should edit path and filename inside the script)
startvm.vbs – usage: startvm.vbs “Name of your virtual machine” – this script will start the virtual machine
stopvm.vbs – usage: stopvm.vbs “Name of your virtual machine” – this script will turn of (dirty!) your virtual machine
shutdownvm.vbs – usage: shutdownvm.vbs “Name of your virtual machine” – this script will shut down your virtual machine if it is Integration Services aware – it will signal/notify guest operating system to initialize shutdown procedure. It works only on machines that support Hyper-V Integration services.
hardresetvm.vbs – usage: hardresertvm.vbs “Name of your virtual machine” – this script will reset (dirty!) your virtual machine
savestatevm.vbs – usage: savestatevm.vbs “Name of your virtual machine” – this script will save and turn off your virtual machine
I have compiled this scripts using resources regarding Hyper-V and WMI
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc136992(VS.85).aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/
Enjoy, WMI power!
Luka Manojlovic 
Great scripts. Do you have one for export and import?
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Thank you!
Very helpful scripts.
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Any scripts to take a snapshot and revert back to a snapshot?
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Thank you for your job.
Is there any scripts can create a virtual system?
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Here you go…
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2008/05/28/scripting-vm-creation-with-hyper-v.aspx 🙂
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Very helpful.
Is there a way to get Virtual Machine Volume labels, Number of NICs, Disk provisioning types, number of CPUS, number of disks, RAM size in MB?
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Hi,
Can any one reply to my abov query?
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Thanks for this post! Scripts worked great, you would think that microsoft would have had these built into the server software to start and stop vms from the command line…
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Hey awsome script they are , i was searching too much for this thanx
I want one more script pls provide that one ,script for making new virtual machine and adding vhd in that pls help me for that
Thnaks and Regards
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Love the scripts,
I’m building an app to run these via over windows network to other hyperv hosts. Having a little trouble, is anyone having success doing anything like this ? I can get it all working from the app, running the command locally, but accross the network, not so much luck.
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Hi,
Any idea how you can rename a snapshot using rootvirtualizationv2?
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Hard resetting doesn’t work. I try reset from c#, but nothing here
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Excellent post. I was checking constantly this blog and I am impressed!
Very useful information particularly the last part 🙂 I care for such info a lot.
I was seeking this certain information for a long time.
Thank you and good luck.
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Nice scripts. Thank you for posting.
I will note I had to use WbemScripting.SWbemLocator to connect to my servers so I could use a username/password.
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Hello,
can anyone help about how to monitor the Hyper-v replication health in windows 2012 R2 ?
do you have a vbs script to do that ?
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