From 6acdb9d1488be7425cac9f992ae58693554c908c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Lang <plang@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:51:38 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Disabling automatic checkpoints

Signed-off-by: Patrick Lang <plang@microsoft.com>
---
 common/powershell/hyperv/hyperv.go | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/common/powershell/hyperv/hyperv.go b/common/powershell/hyperv/hyperv.go
index 6e2b9dc7e..09a5ae373 100644
--- a/common/powershell/hyperv/hyperv.go
+++ b/common/powershell/hyperv/hyperv.go
@@ -213,10 +213,27 @@ New-VM -Name $vmName -Path $path -MemoryStartupBytes $memoryStartupBytes -NewVHD
 			return err
 		}
 
+		err = DisableAutomaticCheckpoints(vmName)
+
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+
 		return DeleteAllDvdDrives(vmName)
 	}
 }
 
+func DisableAutomaticCheckpoints(vmName string) error {
+	var script = `
+param([string]$vmName)
+if ((Get-Command Set-Vm).Parameters["AutomaticCheckpointsEnabled"]) { 
+	Set-Vm -Name $vmName -AutomaticCheckpointsEnabled $false }
+`
+	var ps powershell.PowerShellCmd
+	err := ps.Run(script, vmName)
+	return err
+}
+
 func SetVirtualMachineCpuCount(vmName string, cpu uint) error {
 
 	var script = `