Hyper-V files.

Question

Hi everyone!

How can I relate VM and its files? Who is who?

 Directory of C:\VMs\Virtual Machines  
  
05/08/2021  07:45    <DIR>          .  
05/08/2021  07:45    <DIR>          ..  
25/06/2021  13:08    <DIR>          563D051F-A995-4482-B67F-34B806822FBC  
22/07/2021  13:22            81.920 563D051F-A995-4482-B67F-34B806822FBC.vmcx  
25/06/2021  13:08         4.194.816 563D051F-A995-4482-B67F-34B806822FBC.vmgs  
22/07/2021  13:22     8.589.983.744 563D051F-A995-4482-B67F-34B806822FBC.VMRS  
22/07/2021  15:31    <DIR>          5E8737A5-59E6-48BF-831E-6C31DDEC9253  
22/07/2021  15:33            53.854 5E8737A5-59E6-48BF-831E-6C31DDEC9253.vmcx  
26/07/2021  09:02         4.194.816 5E8737A5-59E6-48BF-831E-6C31DDEC9253.vmgs  
22/07/2021  15:33     4.295.004.160 5E8737A5-59E6-48BF-831E-6C31DDEC9253.VMRS  
05/08/2021  07:45    <DIR>          7BD24D58-8BBC-4DCE-BB71-4543B51E5C74  
11/08/2021  11:59            81.920 7BD24D58-8BBC-4DCE-BB71-4543B51E5C74.vmcx  
11/08/2021  11:59         4.194.816 7BD24D58-8BBC-4DCE-BB71-4543B51E5C74.vmgs  
11/08/2021  11:59            49.152 7BD24D58-8BBC-4DCE-BB71-4543B51E5C74.VMRS  
22/07/2021  15:26    <DIR>          E3769DB1-2206-457D-806E-35CED51FE7CB  
28/07/2021  09:22            60.080 E3769DB1-2206-457D-806E-35CED51FE7CB.vmcx  
02/08/2021  09:02         4.194.816 E3769DB1-2206-457D-806E-35CED51FE7CB.vmgs  
28/07/2021  09:22    17.179.906.048 E3769DB1-2206-457D-806E-35CED51FE7CB.VMRS  
              12 File(s) 30.082.000.142 bytes  
               6 Dir(s)  2.462.086.615.040 bytes free  

Answer 1

You can find the config file names here.

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Answer 2

Hi,

Both Dave Patrick and Limitless Technology are right. We can use get-vm cmdlet to get the virtual machine information, including id.

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get-vm | select id, name, state,version

If we have multiple virtual machines, we can export the data to csv.

get-vm | select id, name, state,version | export-csv c:\temp\vm.csv

Alex
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Answer 3

Hello @Doria

You can find from GUID of VM.

get-vm -Name "VMName" | Select-Object id  

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Answer 4

Yes, all answers helped me! Thanks!

Now my second question would be how to move the VM definitions to a new path on disk? The highlighted VM was imported but it doesn't respect the default path defined in Hyper-V.