New Integration Service “Guest Service” in Windows 8.1 Hyper-V

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, June 30, 2013

When opening the Virtual Machine Settings Integration Services node in Hyper-V running on Windows 8.1 Preview, you will notice that there is now an additional Integration Service listed called Guest Services. By default the service is not enabled,

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With this integration service enabled, you can now directly copy a file from a remote system into the VM without utilizing a network connection. A new PowerShell cmdlet Copy-VMFile has been added for this new feature.

The following example first enables the Guest Services Integration service and then copies a file from the VM host system into the running VM.

Enable-VMIntegrationService -VMName "win81" -Name "Guest Service Interface" -ErrorAction Continue
Copy-VMFile -Name "win81" -SourcePath "C:\data\test.txt" -DestinationPath "c:\data\test.txt"  -FileSource Host -Force