There are three operation methods regarding VM operations: 1. DefineVirtualSystem 2. ModifyVirtualSystem 3. DestroyVirtualSystem VMs are represented by in memory WMI objects and serialized as Xml files as their backend storage. DefineVirtualSystem...

Introduction Msvm_VirtualSystemManagementService is a WMI object that Hyper-V uses to perform Virtual System Management related operations. The service codes are implemented in vmms.exe which is in %windows%\system32 directory. Hyper-V Manager UI also...

It will be really difficult to under Hyper-V programming model without understanding WMI. I will briefly describe the WMI concepts that were used in our samples. WMI borrowed Relational Database concept and applied to the object world. There are many...

To build and run each sample in C#, here are the steps: 1. Create a new project: 2. Add a new class and name it as common.cs: 3. Copy the common library code from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc723869(VS.85).aspx...

One of customers was not able to get the DNS name from a VM by running the samples at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc723870(VS.85).aspx I debugged and found out that the Win2008 Virtual System was still running Hyper-V beta. Here are the...

I wrote the msdn Hyper-V documentation samples with my colleges' help. I want to use this blog to explain the contexts that we missed from these samples. I will be really happy if we can achieve the following goals together: Make our MSDN online...