Get HyperV Memory Size without Elevation

Question

I need to determine how much memory is used by a certain Hyper-V virtual machine. I am interested in the Startup memory amount. Get-VMMemory works, but requires elevation.

It is possible to get the same information using the Hyper-V manager GUI without elavation. Is there a way to get the same information programmatically without elevation?

Answer 1

Option 1

Did you try Exporting the configuration of a virtual machine and then read the required parameters from it? That might be helpful for you.

Option 2

if you can parse the VM config file located at C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V\Virtual Machines then you can read startup memory amount.

https://www.itprotoday.com/server-virtualization/reading-binary-vmcx-file-windows-2016-hyper-v

You can set the path of virtual machine default folder with this.