So you want to use passthough disks with Hyper-V cool – but how do you script attaching them? Well here’s your answer… But first you need to decide if you are going to attach them to the virtual IDE controller or the virtual SCSI controller. The IDE controller is ideal if you plan to boot from the passthough disk or if your guest doesn’t support the virtual SCSI adapter (Linux), the SCSI controller is ideal if you want to add/remove storage from the virtual machine while it’s running (feature of Hyper-V R2) or if you have more than 4 disks you want to add. Attaching to SCSI or IDE is pretty similar – there are really only 1 difference I bolded it on both scripts below you just have to select the correct controller. Other than that you can either use the physical disk number for disk manager (not too bad) or if you provide a LUN ID when you create the storage (in the case of a SAN) you can use that which can be a bit more deterministic. Either way enjoy!
Attaching Passthrough Disk To IDE Controller
$HyperVGuest="Passthough Demo" $Vm=Get-WmiObject-Namespace"root\virtualization"-Query"Select * From Msvm_ComputerSystem Where ElementName='$HyperVGuest'" $VMSettingData=Get-WmiObject-Namespace"root\virtualization"-Query"Associators of {$Vm} Where ResultClass=Msvm_VirtualSystemSettingData AssocClass=Msvm_SettingsDefineState" where-object {$_.ResourceSubType -eq"Microsoft Emulated IDE Controller"-and$_.Address -eq0}) $DiskAllocationSetting=Get-WmiObject-Namespace"root\virtualization"-Query"SELECT * FROM Msvm_AllocationCapabilities WHERE ResourceSubType = 'Microsoft Physical Disk Drive'" $DefaultHardDisk= (Get-WmiObject-Namespace"root\virtualization"-Query"Associators of {$DiskAllocationSetting} Where ResultClass=Msvm_ResourceAllocationSettingData AssocClass=Msvm_SettingsDefineCapabilities" | ` where-object {$_.InstanceID -like"*Default"}) |
Attaching Passthrough Disk To SCSI Controller
$HyperVGuest="Passthough Demo" $VMManagementService=Get-WmiObject-class"Msvm_VirtualSystemManagementService"-namespace"root\virtualization" $VMSettingData=Get-WmiObject-Namespace"root\virtualization"-Query"Associators of {$Vm} Where ResultClass=Msvm_VirtualSystemSettingData AssocClass=Msvm_SettingsDefineState"
$DiskAllocationSetting=Get-WmiObject-Namespace"root\virtualization"-Query"SELECT * FROM Msvm_AllocationCapabilities WHERE ResourceSubType = 'Microsoft Physical Disk Drive'" where-object {$_.InstanceID -like"*Default"}) $Disk=Get-WmiObject-Namespace"root\virtualization"-Query"select * from Msvm_DiskDrive Where DriveNumber=2" $DefaultHardDisk.Parent =$VmScsiController.__Path $DefaultHardDisk.HostResource =$Disk.__PATH $VMManagementService.AddVirtualSystemResources($VM, $DefaultHardDisk.PSBase.GetText(1)) | ProcessWMIJob $VMManagementService"AddVirtualSystemResources" |
Taylor Brown
Hyper-V Integration Test Lead
http://blogs.msdn.com/taylorb
