Re: detailed information with start-vm

If you only want to see a message when the start fails, you would be better off with a Try-Catch construct.

Something like this

$vmName="MyVM"
try {
  $ProgressPreference="SilentlyContinue"
  $vm=Get-VM-Name$vmName-ErrorActionSilentlyContinue
  Start-VM-VM$vm-ErrorActionSilentlyContinue|Out-Null
}
catch {
  "$vmName failed to start"
}