PVMZ Converter

Extract text from Parallels virtual machines (PVMZ)


Drop or upload your .PVMZ file
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How to extract text from your PVMZ file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PVMZ file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert PVMZ to another file type

To convert PVMZ virtual machines to another format, you need Parallels Desktop or other Compressed software.

Convert a file to PVMZ

To convert other file formats to the "Virtual Machine Archive" file type, you need software like Parallels Desktop or a similar tool.


About PVMZ files

The .PVMZ file format is a compressed virtual machine archive used by Parallels Desktop. Users create these files to back up a complete virtual operating system or transfer it between Mac computers. This archive packages the virtual hard disk, configuration settings, and memory states into a single file to reduce storage space. To open or use a .PVMZ file, you need Parallels Desktop for Mac. The main disadvantage of the .PVMZ format is its restrictive, proprietary nature. It is locked into the Parallels ecosystem, which requires an expensive yearly subscription. Furthermore, these files are frequently massive - often exceeding 20GB - making them difficult to upload or share online. Standard archive tools like WinRAR or 7-Zip cannot natively execute or fully extract the usable virtual system for competitors' software. Users usually want to convert the contents of a .PVMZ file to run the virtual machine in free or cross-platform hypervisors like VirtualBox or VMware. To do this, the archive must be extracted to a standard PVM bundle, and the internal virtual hard disk must be converted to VDI or VMDK. During this process, saved VM states and Parallels Tools drivers are lost and must be reconfigured. Because this is a specialized compressed container, standard online converters fail to process it. Only the original software can properly restore and boot the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

Convert.Guru analyzes your PVMZ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.


FAQ

If you want to convert PVMZ file to ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, LZMA, CAB, ACE, ARJ or LHA, you can use Parallels Desktop or similar software from the "Virtual Machine Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert XXE, 7Z, Z, PAK, LHA, DEB, UUE, TAR, LZH, ZIP, PKG or RAR files to PVMZ, try Parallels Desktop or another comparable tool in the "Virtual Machine Archive" category.



The PVMZ 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 PVMZ converter.