Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 Virtual machine files

Virtual Machine files

•  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