Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PVM file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert PVM to another file type
To convert PVM Manifests to another format, you need HP Photosmart or other Data software.
Convert a file to PVM
To convert other file formats to the "XML Manifest File" file type, you need software like HP Photosmart or a similar tool.
About PVM files
The .PVM file extension primarily acts as an XML-based Photo Viewer Manifest or MusicPhotoVideo playlist file. It was heavily used by older software like HP Photosmart Essential and defined by the OSTA MusicPhotoVideo standard to organize digital albums. Secondary uses include Parallels Virtual Machine packages for macOS, Power Commander fuel maps by Dynojet, and legacy Sega Dreamcast texture files. Users frequently encounter .PVM files when trying to recover old photo backups and assume the file contains their actual pictures. This is the biggest disadvantage of the format: the HP manifest is merely a text file containing file paths, not the actual media. It relies entirely on external media files remaining exactly where they were when the album was created. Because it is proprietary and strictly structural, you cannot simply convert a .PVM to a JPG or MP4. The ideal conversion targets for a manifest are TXT, XML, or PDF so you can read the internal paths and manually track down your missing photos. For Parallels Virtual Machines, the file is actually a macOS package folder holding gigabytes of data like HDD drives; these cannot be converted by standard web tools. Standard online converters fail because they mistakenly treat the HP manifest as an image or choke on the massive size of a Parallels package. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your PVM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert PVM file to VMDK, UTM, VHDX, ISO, VHD, OVF, IMG, DMG, VDI, HDD, QCOW or QCOW2, you can use HP Photosmart or similar software from the "Photo Album Manifest" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert VFD, DMG, OVA, IMA, VBOX, ADF, PVS, VHD, OVF, ISO, DSK or IMG files to PVM, try HP Photosmart or another comparable tool in the "Photo Album Manifest" category.
The PVM 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 PVM converter.