Start/Stop Hyper-V VMs from a script

[Craig Tech]

Hello,

 

I'm on Windows 10 Pro running Pulseway and have Hyper-V with a few VMs. Is there a way I could start/stop one of the VMs from the Android app using a script?

[Paul]

Hi Craig,

For sure, you can use PowerShell to control Hyper-V. See link: http://techgenix.com/administer-microsoft-hyper-v-command-line-cli/. Also you can enable the Hyper-V server module from the Pulseway Manager -> Server Modules -> Hyper-V as we have built-in support for managing Hyper-V.

-Paul

[BartB]

There is a whole set of Powershell commands to work with Hyper-V virtual machines:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/quick-start/try-hyper-v-powershell

You can create a Powershell script in Pulseway - it's as simple as:

 

Stop-VM -Name TestVM

Start-VM -Name TestVM

Just RTFM for other command uses.