{"id":2730,"date":"2013-10-14T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/10\/14\/powertip-identify-locations-of-hyper-v-config-files\/"},"modified":"2013-10-14T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-identify-locations-of-hyper-v-config-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-identify-locations-of-hyper-v-config-files\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Identify Locations of Hyper-V Config Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Use PowerShell to find the .xml files of Hyper-V virtual machines.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\">&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily find the location of my virtual machines after I reinstalled Hyper-V in Windows Server&nbsp;2008&nbsp;R2?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\">&nbsp;The virtual machine configuration is stored in an .xml file with a GUID, and you can use&nbsp;<strong>Get-ChildItem<\/strong>&nbsp;to easily parse a hard drive to find the location.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">To scan drive C: for all .xml files:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">GET-CHILDITEM C: -recurse -include *.xml<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">To be more efficient, target only C:ProgramData where the data, including hidden folders, is stored:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">GET-CHILDITEM C:ProgramData &ndash;recurse &ndash;include *.xml &ndash;force<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">If you need to manually rebuild configuration data, you can parse files for machine names and data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use PowerShell to find the .xml files of Hyper-V virtual machines. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily find the location of my virtual machines after I reinstalled Hyper-V in Windows Server&nbsp;2008&nbsp;R2? &nbsp;The virtual machine configuration is stored in an .xml file with a GUID, and you can use&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;to easily parse a hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[271,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-hyper-v","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use PowerShell to find the .xml files of Hyper-V virtual machines. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily find the location of my virtual machines after I reinstalled Hyper-V in Windows Server&nbsp;2008&nbsp;R2? &nbsp;The virtual machine configuration is stored in an .xml file with a GUID, and you can use&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;to easily parse a hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}