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Windows event log ยท Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS-Admin18304 A new Hyper-V VM was created

  • Windows operational
  • 1 field
  • Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS-Admin.evtx
  • Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS

Fields EvtxECmd extracts

1 column in the EvtxECmd CSV

  • PayloadData1A new virtual machine %VmName% was created. (Virtual machine ID %VmId%)
    • %VmName% = /Event/UserData/VmlEventLog/VmName
    • %VmId% = /Event/UserData/VmlEventLog/VmId

Sample event

Event XML from the map file

<Event>
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS" Guid="6066f867-7ca1-4418-85fd-36e3f9c0600c"/>
    <EventID>18304</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>4</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2023-08-03 00:30:42.4870524"/>
    <EventRecordID>65</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation/>
    <Execution ProcessID="1728" ThreadID="2212"/>
    <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS-Admin</Channel>
    <Computer>WIN-1234</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18"/>
  </System>
  <UserData>
    <VmlEventLog>
      <VmName>VM Testing</VmName>
      <VmId>8EB9FA6A-98BF-4B32-A74A-A420AE683997</VmId>
    </VmlEventLog>
  </UserData>
</Event>

Source: evtx/Maps/Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS-Admin_Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS_18304.map(opens in new tab) by Suyash Tripathi and contributors(opens in new tab), MIT License(opens in new tab)