powercli 5.1 R1 bug?

[jedijeff]

anyone else getting formatting issues when issuing a "get-vm vm | fl" ?

Thanks,,,

[LucD]

Which issues do you mean ?

And, no that works for me without any error messages

[jedijeff]

Hmm,,,I have a pretty clean win7 vm i only use for powercli....ever since going from 501 to 5.1r1 that command results in a format error that splashes all the results on the right side 1 character per line running from the console.

Running from Powergui this is appears to be what is causing it, as I get this output for the memory stat:

"{0:N3}" -f $_.MemoryGB

                         : 2.000

i thought i had a stray dll somewhere so i uninstalled everything,,,powercli, vmware client. I guess i will poke around somemore.

[LucD]

Ah, you mean the garbled format. Rest assured, I have that as well.

[jedijeff]

ok cool. I will wait for a fix. At least i know its not my box!

[LucD · Accepted solution]

As a bypass, you can do

Get-VM vm | fl -Property *

That works for me

[jedijeff]

yes me too. We have to do that syntaxt in 5.1 now?

[LucD]

No, it's a bypass for the "feature"

[jedijeff]