Can any one else reproduceNew-VirtualDiskDrive not honouring-RunAsynchronously?
I'm literally doing:
$objHardDisk = Get-VirtualHardDisk | ?{$_.Name -eq "diskinlibrary.vhd"}$objISO = get-iso | ?{$_.name -eq"isoinlibrary"}$objVM = get-vm -name myVM
New-VirtualDiskDrive -VM $objVM -VirtualHardDisk $objHardDisk -IDE ` -Bus 0 -LUN 0 -Filename $strFileName -RunAsynchronously
And control is not returned until creation of the disk is complete.
Help:" -RunAsynchronously Specifies that the job runs asynchronously so that control returns to the command shell immediately."(Like you all did not know that and needed me to quote the help to you, sorry.)

Jeremy,

I will look into this and get back with you.

Carmen

I just ran the same steps (without the $objISO since that variable is not used in the New-VirtualDiskDrive command) and it also did not run asynchronously. I'll check with the PM who owns New-VirtualDiskDrive.

Jeremy, This is a known bug that we are tracking, but it is not likely to be fixed for R2.

Regards,
Laurie

• Marked as answer by Carmen SummersMicrosoft employee, Owner Wednesday, June 24, 2009 12:48 AM

We stumbled across this bug today. So it did not get fixed in R2. :(

Is there a workaround?