Managing VM state

Managing the VM state involves stopping and starting or pausing and resuming a VM. You can also save and restore a VM.

Getting ready

This recipe uses the VM1 VM created in the Creating a virtual machine recipe. This recipe assumes the VM1 VM is stopped when you start this recipe. If this VM is running, then first stop it using Stop-VM.

How to do it...

Here is how to manage VM state:

1. Get the VM's state to check if it is off:

      Get-VM     -Name VM1

2. Start the VM, get its status, then wait until the VM has an IP address assigned and the networking stack is working, then examine the VM's state:

      Start-VM  -VMName VM1 
      Get-Vm    -VMName VM1 
      Wait-VM   -VMName VM1 -For IPAddress 
      Get-VM    -VMName VM1

3. Suspend and resume a VM:

      Suspend-VM -VMName VM1 
      Get-VM     -VMName VM1 
      Resume-VM  -VMName VM1 
      Get-VM     -VMName VM1

4. Save the VM and check status:

      Save-VM    -VMName VM1 
      Get-VM     -VMName VM1

5. Resume the saved VM and view the...