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Start Virtual Machines (Virtual PC) through Script

August 4th, 2009 menush Comments off

Ben Armstrong, a Program Manager on the core virtualization team at Microsoft recently posted a blog with powershell and vbscript examples that will allow an administrator to boot up virtual machines (built with Windows Virtual PC) directly via scripting. He argues it will provide the following benefits:

  • Automated testing
  • Patch deployment
  • Faster launch

Read his blog to view and download the scripts.