IVMVirtualPC::FindVirtualMachine method

[Windows Virtual PC is no longer available for use as of Windows 8. Instead, use the Hyper-V WMI provider (V2).]

Retrieves a virtual machine object that matches the requested configuration.

Syntax

HRESULT FindVirtualMachine(
  [in]          BSTR              configurationName,
  [out, retval] IVMVirtualMachine **virtualMachine
);

configurationName [in]: The name of the virtual machine to be found.
virtualMachine [out, retval]: A pointer to a new IVMVirtualMachine object that represents this virtual machine.

This method can return one of these values.

Return code/value	Description
S_OK 0	The operation was successful.
S_FALSE 1	The specified configuration could not be found.
E_POINTER 0x80004003	The configurationName parameter is invalid, or virtualMachine is NULL.
DISP_E_EXCEPTION 0x80020009	An unexpected error has occurred.
VM_E_HARDWARE_VIRTUALIZATION_DISABLED 0xA0040951	The processor does not support Hardware Accelerated Virtualization (HAV) extensions.

Virtual machine names are case-insensitive, for example, "MyVM" and "myvm" refer to the same virtual machine.

Requirement	Value
Minimum supported client	Windows 7 [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	None supported
End of client support	Windows 7
Product	Windows Virtual PC
Header	VPCCOMInterfaces.h
IID	IID_IVMVirtualPC is defined as 236ba0d9-a24a-4292-a132-27c1421dfd01