Hyper-V How To: Convert a VHD using Script
Some friends here on the Hyper-V team shared a PowerShell 2.0 script for converting your VHDs:
# Convert a VHD
param(
[string]$vhdPath = $(throw "Must specify full VHD path, including extension"),
[string]$destPath = $(throw "Must specify full path of destination VHD, including extension"),
[switch]$Fixed,
[switch]$Dynamic
)#obtain the Msvm_ImageManagementService class
$ImageMgtService = get-wmiobject Msvm_ImageManagementService -namespace root\virtualization# Convert the VHD
if($Dynamic){
$result = $ImageMgtService.ConvertVirtualHardDisk($vhdPath,$destPath,3)
}else if($Fixed){
$result = $ImageMgtService.ConvertVirtualHardDisk($vhdPath,$destPath,2)
}else{
throw "Must specify type of vhd to covert to with either the -Fixed or -Dynamic flag"
}if($result.ReturnValue -eq 4096){
# A Job was started, and can be tracked using its Msvm_Job instance
$job = [wmi]$result.Job
# Wait for job to finish
while($job.jobstate -lt 7){$job.get()}
# Return the Job's error code
return $job.ErrorCode
}
# Otherwise, the method completed
return $result.ReturnValue
For more info on how to use PS cmdlets see: https://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/msh/cmdlets/index.mspx
See also James O’Neil’s New and improved PowerShell Library for Hyper-V. Now with more functions and... documentation!
For all 35 sample Hyper-V PS1 scripts in a zipfile, go to: Hyper-V PowerShell Example Scripts.zip-download