Where does Hyper-V store its log files on Windows?

Hyper-V

2 log locations · Windows

Microsoft Corporation · Vendor documentation

Where Hyper-V keeps its logs

Hyper-V logs to Event Viewer > Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > Hyper-V-VMMS on Windows. 1 other Windows log location is recorded below.

Paths are printed exactly as Hyper-V writes them. Environment variables like %LOCALAPPDATA% and $XDG_STATE_HOME are never expanded, so a path can be pasted straight into a shell. Where a path differs between installer types or shipping flavours, each one is racked as its own card below - why that happens.

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Hyper-V - Windows

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Virtual Machine Management ServiceEvent Viewer > Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > Hyper-V-VMMS

VM worker process

Event Viewer > Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > Hyper-V-Worker- Other channels: Hyper-V-Config, Hyper-V-Hypervisor, Hyper-V-Integration, Hyper-V-SynthNic, Hyper-V-SynthStor.

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