Register Hyper-V guest

Question

Hello

How we can register existing guest VM without import the VM? Importing the VM will copy the VM disk and this will make duplicated and i don't want this happen. I need this due my OS on hyper-v host reinstalled.

Answer 1

Import only makes a copy if you tell it to. You can register in-place as well. The import wizard has a radio button to select register. PowerShell's Import-VM has a -Register parameter that does the same.