Hyper-V WMI: KVP Exchange aka Data Exchange (Retrieving and Modifying Parent/Host KVP’s)
On Sunday I showed how to add registry keys to the guest from the host (Hyper-V WMI: KVP Exchange aka Data Exchange (Adding New Items From Parent/Host)) and on Monday I showed how to read registry key’s written by the guest from the host (Hyper-V WMI- KVP Exchange aka Data Exchange (Adding New Items From Guest)). Today I am going to show how to retrieve previously added host keys and modify there values…
Retrieving Previously Added Key’s
| filter Import-CimXml { $CimXml = [Xml]$_ $CimObj = New-Object -TypeName System.Object foreach ($CimProperty in $CimXml.SelectNodes("/INSTANCE/PROPERTY")) { $CimObj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name $CimProperty.NAME -Value $CimProperty.VALUE } $CimObj } $Vm = Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\virtualization -Query "Select * From Msvm_ComputerSystem Where ElementName='vista'" $Kvp = Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\virtualization -Query "Associators of {$Vm} Where AssocClass=Msvm_SystemDevice ResultClass=Msvm_KvpExchangeComponent" $GuestKvp = Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\virtualization -Query "Associators of {$Kvp} Where AssocClass=Msvm_ElementSettingData ResultClass=Msvm_KvpExchangeComponentSettingData" $GuestKvp.HostExchangeItems | Import-CimXml |
Modifying Previously Added Key’s
This is almost identical to the script to add a KVP except in this case you need to provide a Name of an existing KVP and call the ModifyKvpItems method…
Note: If you are using my ProcessWMIObject function and getting a blank error message you should update to the latest version posted 7/6.
| $ComputerName = "localhost" $VMManagementService = Get-WmiObject -class "Msvm_VirtualSystemManagementService" -namespace "root\virtualization" -ComputerName $ComputerName $Vm = Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\virtualization -ComputerName $ComputerName -Query "Select * From Msvm_ComputerSystem Where ElementName='Vista'" $Kvp = Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\virtualization -ComputerName $ComputerName -Query "Associators of {$Vm} Where AssocClass=Msvm_SystemDevice ResultClass=Msvm_KvpExchangeComponent" $Msvm_KvpExchangeDataItemPath = "\\$ComputerName\root\virtualization:Msvm_KvpExchangeDataItem" $Msvm_KvpExchangeDateItem = ([WmiClass]$Msvm_KvpExchangeDataItemPath).CreateInstance() $Msvm_KvpExchangeDateItem.Name = <PreviousKeyName> $Msvm_KvpExchangeDateItem.Data = "Foo" $Msvm_KvpExchangeDateItem.Source = 0 $VMManagementService.ModifyKvpItems($Vm, $Msvm_KvpExchangeDateItem.PSBase.GetText(1)) |
Taylor Brown
Hyper-V Integration Test Lead
https://blogs.msdn.com/taylorb
