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dpmhv-showVMFloppy (Funclet) Command--Show the Properties of Floppy Drive

The dpmhv-showVMFloppy command lets you retrieve information about all floppy drives attached to every VM on the Hyper-V host.

This command has the following format:

dpmhv-showVMFloppy 
-vm vmname|-vmid vmguid 
-host hostname 
[-retval] 
[-silent] 
[-detail]

-vm vmname

Specifies the name of the VM.

-vmid vmguid

Specifies the unique ID of the VM.

-host hostname

Specifies the name of the Hyper-V server host.

-retval

Returns a value for further processing.

-silent

Specifies not to direct the output to the screen.

-detail

(Optional) Displays the information details of the floppy drive of the VM.

Return Value

The dpmhv-showVMFloppy command returns the objects representing the information details of the VM floppy drive properties.

The following properties are returned in regular mode:

• Caption
• Connection
• ElementName

The following properties are returned in detail mode:

• Address
• AllocationUnits
• AutomaticAllocation
• AutomaticDeallocation
• Caption
• Connection
• ConsumerVisibility
• Description
• ElementName
• HostResource
• InstanceID
• Limit
• MappingBehavior
• OtherResourceType
• Parent
• Path
• PoolID
• Reservation
• ResourceSubType
• ResourceType
• VirtualQuantity
• VirtualSystemIdentifiers
• Weight

Example: Show all Floppy Drives of a VM

This example returns the list of floppy drives attached to the VM.

dpmhv-showVMFloppy -host hvserver -vm TestVM