Managing VM state

Managing the VM state involves stopping and starting, or pausing and resuming, a VM. You can also save and restore, as shown in this recipe.

Getting ready

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

How to do it...

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

   Stop-VM -Name PSDirect -WarningAction SilentlyContinue
   Get-VM -Name PSDirect

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 PSDirect
   Wait-VM  -VMName PSDirect -For IPAddress
   Get-VM   -VMName PSDirect

3. Suspend and view the PSDirect VM:

   Suspend-VM -VMName PSDirect
   Get-VM -VMName PSDirect

4. Resume the VM:

   Resume-VM -VMName PSDirect
   Get-VM -VMName PSDirect

5. Save the VM and check its status:

   Save-VM -VMName PSDirect
   Get-VM -VMName PSDirect

6. Resume...