Modifying virtual machines

Modifying a virtual machine can be divided into many categories. We have divided it as follows:

• CD drives and floppy drives

• Hard disks

• Network adapters and USB devices

• Passthrough devices

• Snapshots

• Resource configuration and policies

• Managing VMware tools

As given in the preceding list, we will start with managing CD drives and floppy drives:

We will use the following cmdlets to manage the CD drives and floppy drives in a VM:

• Get-CDDrive / Get-FloppyDrive

• New-CDDrive / New-FloppyDrive

• Remove-CDDrive / Remove-FloppyDrive

• Set-CDDrive / Set-FloppyDrive

To get a list of connected CD or floppy drives, we can use the Get-CDDrive or Get-FloppyDrive cmdlet. For example, by running this cmdlet, we can find out that the Test-1 VM is currently not connected to any CD drive:

PS C:\> Get-CDDrive -VM Test-1

PS C:\>

So, let's first add a CD drive to the VM using the New-CDDRive cmdlet:

PS C:\> New-CDDrive -VM Test-1
WARNING: Parameter 'VM' is obsolete. Passing multiple values...