Comments on: PowerCLI: More HAL Information

By: vNiklas Virtualization blog » Use of PowerCLI and invoke-script to get HAL running of Windows VM´s

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:42:13 +0000

[...] have made an little script somewhat alike to Alan Renouf´s to get the HAL of the VM guest running in your environment, the difference in my approach is that i [...]

By: Lieven

Lieven — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:56:29 +0000

Would it be possible to include this script in your vCheck script?

By: Robert van den Nieuwendijk

Robert van den Nieuwendijk — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:19:35 +0000

I didn’t get the OSHAL with your script. The Get-WmiObject -ComputerName $_.Name-Query “SELECT * FROM Win32_PnPEntity where ClassGuid = ‘{4D36E966-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}’“ gave an Invalid Query error on the where clause. So I changed the script to:

Get-VM |Where {$_.PowerState -eq “PoweredOn”} |Sort Name |Select Name, NumCPU, @{N=”OSHAL”;E={(Get-WmiObject -ComputerName $_.Name-Query “SELECT * FROM Win32_PnPEntity” |Where { $_.ClassGuid -eq ‘{4D36E966-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}’ } |Select Name).Name}}, @{N=”OperatingSystem”;E={(Get-WmiObject -ComputerName $_ -Class Win32_OperatingSystem |Select Caption).Caption}}, @{N=”ServicePack”;E={(Get-WmiObject -ComputerName $_ -Class Win32_OperatingSystem |Select CSDVersion).CSDVersion}}

This version works for me.

By: Arsento

Arsento — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:05:02 +0000

Thank you! You often write very interesting articles. You improved my mood.

By: Virtu-Al

Virtu-Al — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:08:11 +0000

@Hal Rottenberg Yes I finally worked out the code that converts you into a virtual Hal so we can all have our own little PowerCLI Guru.

By: Hal Rottenberg

Hal Rottenberg — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:04:24 +0000

Are you talking about me?