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virtual machine snapshot

- What is a virtual machine snapshot?

A virtual machine snapshot is a file-based representation of the state of a virtual machine at a given time. The snapshot includes configuration and disk data. Snapshots are useful for storing states that an administrator might want to return to repeatedly.

See also: checkpoint

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09 Nov 2009

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More resources from around the web:

-	VMware.com explains using snapshots.
-	Ben Armstrong explains virtual machine snapshotting under Hyper-V in his PC Guy blog on MSDN.

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