System Administration Interview Question:

Define virtual machine files?

Submitted by: Murtaza

The first thing to know is what files are used to create a virtual machine:
★ .XML files
These files contain the virtual machine configuration details. There is one of these for each virtual machine and each snapshot of a virtual machine. They are always named with the GUID used to internally identify the virtual machine or snapshot in question.
★ .BIN files
This file contains the memory of a virtual machine or snapshot that is in a saved state.
★ .VSV files
This file contains the saved state from the devices associated with the virtual machine.
★ .VHD files
These are the virtual hard disk files for the virtual machine
★ .AVHD files
These are the differencing disk files used for virtual machine snapshots
Submitted by: Murtaza