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-FloppyDriveNew-CDDrive/New-FloppyDriveRemove-CDDrive/Remove-FloppyDriveSet-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 ...
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