HyperVMs

This system tray utility will enumerate all your Hyper-V VMs and allow you to start & stop the VMs when necessary. It also has an Open Shell option where you can easily SSH into the selected VM.

Pre-Requisites

A Windows OS (tested on Windows 10 Pro)
.NET Framework 4.0 Runtime or higher - Download
An SSH Client - (Git Bash, Windows built-in SSH, PuTTY, etc.)
Administrative Privileges in Windows - Required for executing Hyper-V PowerShell Commands

Configuration Options

The settings.json in the same directory as the HyperVMs binary contains all the configuration needed to run it.

defaultShell - By default this is set to windowsTerminal, and possible values are cmd, powershell, powershellCore & windowsTerminal. You can even setup a completely new shell with correct arguments and use it.
sshCommand - The ssh client command used to shell into the VM. The default would work if the ssh client has a command ssh available in the PATH variable.
autorun - Determines if HyperVMs would autorun on windows startup

{
  "shells": {
    "cmd": {
      "command": "cmd.exe",
      "arguments": "/c"
    },
    "powershell": {
      "command": "powershell.exe",
      "arguments": ""
    },
    "powershellCore": {
      "command": "pwsh.exe",
      "arguments": "-c"
    },
    "windowsTerminal": {
      "command": "wt.exe",
      "arguments": ""
    }
  },
  "sshCommand": "ssh",
  "defaultShell": "windowsTerminal",
  "autorun": true,
  "hosts": {}
}

Notes

Prior to using the Open Shell action, SSH connectivity needs to be setup between host & guest (i.e. Installing SSH Server, setting up private & public keys)
Preferred shell to open via Open Shell can be configured in Settings (i.e. use Open Settings menu item)
By default CMD, PowerShell, PowerShell Core & Windows Terminal shells are configured in settings.json, and one can be picked as the default shell
The user name used to SSH into the VM will asked the 1st time, and will be saved in the settings.json for subsequent uses.

Limitations

Currently HyperVMs can directly shell into VMs configured with the Hyper-V Default Switch. If an Internal or External Switch is used, then the host records need to be setup in the %WINDIR%/System32/drivers/etc/hosts file.

If the Hyper-V VM Name is "SomeVM", then the hostname SomeVM.mshome.net would need to be mapped into the corresponding IP manually.

Screenshots

Context Menu
Managing VMs
SSH Into VM
VM Power On/Off

Contributing

.NET Framework 4.0 SDK is needed to build the project - Download.

Clone the repository
Open the HyperVMs.sln in Visual Studio to build & run

EmperorRXF / HyperVMs