Possible values for state & status of Virtual machines

Question

We can get the list of VMs with powershell cmdlets "Get-VM". The returned set have two columns "State" and "Status". I need to know what are the possible state or status may be for a VM. I have an application that need to perform various action based on the state of VM (specially error state).

Answer 1

you can use powershell command:

Import-Module Hyper-V

[enum]::GetNames([Microsoft.HyperV.Powershell.VMState])
[enum]::GetNames([Microsoft.HyperV.Powershell.VMOperationalStatus])