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

Read more about virtual machine snapshot: - 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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