How to check local Hyper-V VM generation

Seemingly Hyper-V Manager GUI does not show VM generation of already created VMs whereas we do need to check on that sometimes. As usual PowerShell is an answer to this problem:

That command will output name of VMs and generation information as shown on a sample screenshot below:

Using Get-VM to check VM generation information

Command above need to be run in elevated (Run as administrator) PowerShell window and from your Hyper-V host.

That’s it – Just a little note on how to grab VM generation information.

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