{"id":3406,"date":"2013-06-14T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/06\/14\/create-a-new-virtual-machine-with-powershell-part-1\/"},"modified":"2013-06-14T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T00:01:00","slug":"create-a-new-virtual-machine-with-powershell-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/create-a-new-virtual-machine-with-powershell-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a New Virtual Machine with PowerShell: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: Microsoft Windows PowerShell MVP and honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, begins a three-part series about creating new virtual machines.<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. If you are a seasoned Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog reader, you know that the most frequent guest blogger is Sean Kearney. If you are new to the blog, I welcome you, and I encourage you to catch up with Sean’s previous blogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sean is a Windows PowerShell MVP and an Honorary Scripting Guy.<\/a> Sean’s session at TechEd NA and TechEd Europe this year is Integrating with Microsoft System Center 2012 and Windows PowerShell<\/a>. In his free time, Sean has written several blog posts about Hyper-V and some other cool stuff, and for the next few weeks, Sean will be the designated guest blogger on Fridays.<\/p>\n

Take it away Sean…<\/p>\n

I felt a little poke on my shoulder the other day. A friend came and asked me how hard it is to create a virtual machine with Windows Powershell and Hyper-V.<\/p>\n

I typed in the following cmdlet and walked off.<\/p>\n

NEW-VM<\/p>\n

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He blinked and came back to me. “OK, smart guy. I see. That created a new BLANK virtual machine called “New Virtual Machine” with 512 MB of RAM, no hard drive, and unattached to any LAN. Being a little funny today, aren’t we?”<\/span><\/p>\n

I was feeling a bit mischievous at the moment. I’m allowed from time-to-time. “Well, I did meet your needs. You said ‘create a virtual machine.’ So how about we define our parameters?”<\/span><\/p>\n

“OK. I would like to see an example of creating a virtual machine with the following configuration:”<\/p>\n

Name of “Brad VM SCSM”<\/p>\n

2 gigabytes of RAM<\/p>\n

60 gigabyte hard drive<\/p>\n

2 CPU cores assigned<\/p>\n

Connected to my virtual network called “Hyper-V-Prod1”<\/p>\n

I smiled and looked across to my friend. “No problem. So, from what I’ve been showing you about Windows PowerShell, how would you determine the use of this cmdlet?”<\/p>\n

He looked over. “First off, I remember that using Get-Help<\/strong> should show me the available parameters for the cmdlet.”<\/p>\n

GET-HELP NEW-VM<\/p>\n

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“Then if I need to find examples of the cmdlet in use, I would run the same with the –examples<\/strong> parameter.”<\/p>\n

GET-HELP NEW-VM -examples<\/p>\n

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Looking at the information before us, we see that we can at least create a virtual machine with 2 GB of RAM, based on the first example, by using this command:<\/p>\n

NEW-VM –Name “Brad VM SCSM” –MemoryStartupBytes 2048<\/p>\n

Brad looked up. “Now that should work, but we still need the virtual hard disk in this configuration. From what I see in the second example, we could specify a virtual hard disk if we knew the physical path to place it. I know my VHDs are sitting on Drive E:\\VHD on my Hyper-V host in the lab. So I should just be able to pick a VHD file name that is unique to my virtual machine.”<\/p>\n

NEW-VM –Name “Brad VM SCSM” –MemoryStartupBytes 2048 –NewVHDPath E:\\VHD\\BradVMSCSM-C.VHDX<\/p>\n

But when he ran the cmdlet, he got the following prompt:<\/p>\n

NewVHDSizeBytes:<\/p>\n

Scratching his head, he looked over. “What happened?”<\/p>\n

I smiled. “It was a poorly written example, apparently. Human error. Let’s grab lunch first, and then we’ll take a look back.”<\/p>\n

~Sean<\/p>\n

Thanks, Sean. This is great, and I cannot wait to see the next two posts. I invite everyone to join me tomorrow for more cool Windows PowerShell stuff.<\/p>\n

I invite you to follow me on Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>. If you have any questions, send email to me at scripter@microsoft.com<\/a>, or post your questions on the Official Scripting Guys Forum<\/a>. See you tomorrow. Until then, peace.<\/p>\n

Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Microsoft Windows PowerShell MVP and honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, begins a three-part series about creating new virtual machines. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. If you are a seasoned Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog reader, you know that the most frequent guest blogger is Sean Kearney. If you are new to the blog, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,271,3,154,45],"class_list":["post-3406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-hyper-v","tag-scripting-guy","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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