Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your NVRAM file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert NVRAM to another file type
To convert your NVRAM file to another format, you need VMware Workstation or other Settings software.
Convert a file to NVRAM
To convert other file formats to the "Virtual Machine Firmware" file type, you need software like VMware Workstation or a similar tool.
About NVRAM files
A .NVRAM file acts as the digital equivalent of a physical CMOS chip for virtual machines created in VMware Workstation or VMware Fusion. It stores the state of the virtual BIOS or EFI firmware, retaining critical configurations such as boot device priority, system time, and hardware toggles between reboots. While essential for VM operation, .NVRAM files present significant hurdles: they are proprietary binary files that cannot be read by standard text editors, and they are not compatible with other hypervisors like Oracle VirtualBox or Microsoft Hyper-V. A common source of friction is the BIOS password; if forgotten, this file locks you out of the firmware settings. Corruption of this file can also prevent the VM from powering on entirely. For analysis, the best approach is converting the binary content to a Hex Dump or Plain Text view to inspect internal values. For troubleshooting - specifically removing a lost BIOS password - the most practical 'conversion' is deleting the file, forcing the software to generate a fresh, default .NVRAM file. For documentation purposes, converting the VM state to PDF (via screenshots) is the only way to archive the visual settings, as the file itself cannot be rendered as a document.
Convert.Guru analyzes your NVRAM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert NVRAM file to SYS, DLL, EXE, DRV, VXD, 386, COM, BAT, CMD, SCR, PIF or LNK, you can use VMware Workstation or similar software from the "Virtual Machine BIOS Settings" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MSI, EXE, REG, MST, LNK, CAB, CAT, DRV, INF, SYS, MSU or DLL files to NVRAM, try VMware Workstation or another comparable tool in the "Virtual Machine BIOS Settings" category.
The NVRAM Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our NVRAM converter.