Friday, June 28, 2013

Register or Restore a Hyper-V VM?

When you import a Hyper-V VM, the import wizard will ask if you want to register, restore or copy the VM. I always need to refresh my memory on whether I need to register or restore. This blog post explains the difference:
 
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2012/06/26/registering-a-virtual-machine-with-hyper-v-in-windows-8-windows-server-2012.aspx

Since I make sure that the files are exactly where I want them, with the corresponding changes in the config.xml file, I usually go with the register option.

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