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Making it easier to revert

April 20, 2017 by Andy Atkinson [MSFT] // 2 Comments

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Sometimes when things go wrong in my environment, I dont want to have to clean it all up I just want to
go back in time to when everything was working. But remembering to maintain good recovery points isnt
easy.

Now were making it so that you can always roll back your virtual machine to a recent good state if you need
to. Starting in the latest Windows Insider build, you can now always revert a virtual machine back to the state
it started in.

In Virtual Machine Connection, just click the Revert button to undo any changes made inside the virtual
machine since it last started.

Under the hood, were using checkpoints; when you start a virtual machine that doesnt have any checkpoints,
we create one for you so that you can easily roll back to it if something goes wrong, then we clean it up once
the virtual machine shuts down cleanly.

New virtual machines will be created with Use automatic checkpoints enabled by default, but you will have
to enable it yourself to use it for existing VMs. The option is off by default on Windows Server. This option
can be found in Settings > Checkpoints > Use automatic checkpoints

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Note: the checkpoint will only be taken automatically when the VM starts if it doesnt have other existing
checkpoints.

Hopefully this will come in handy next time you need to undo something in your VM. If you are in the
Windows Insider Program, please give it a try and let us know what you think.

Cheers,
Andy

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qwetional 2 months ago

Oh, Please Update HYPERV Manager icon in MSC File

%windir%\system32\virtmgmt.msc, It still use a OLD Icon

John Doe 2 months ago

I can not find Use automatic checkpoints in my build 16179.

Was this introduced in 16179?

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