PowerTip: Change the Startup of Your Hyper-V Virtual Machine

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Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell 3.0 on Windows 8 to change the startup order of your Hyper-V virtual machine.

 How can I change the startup order of my virtual machine on my laptop running Windows 8?

 You can verify the startup order of your virtual machine by piping the results of Get-VM to the Get-VMBios cmdlet, as shown here.

08:11 C:\> get-vm c2 | Get-VMBios

VMName StartupOrder                            NumLockEnabled

—— ————                            ————–

C2     {CD, IDE, LegacyNetworkAdapter, Floppy} False

To change the startup order, pipe the results to the Set-VMBios and supply the order as an array. The following illustrates the technique.

08:12 C:\> get-vm c2 |

  Set-VMBios -StartupOrder @(“IDE”,”LegacyNetworkAdapter”,”CD”,”Floppy”)

08:13 C:\> get-vm c2 | Get-VMBios

VMName StartupOrder                            NumLockEnabled

—— ————                            ————–

C2     {IDE, LegacyNetworkAdapter, CD, Floppy} False

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