Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your VBOX file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert VBOX to another file type
To convert your VBOX file to another format, you need Oracle VM VirtualBox or other Settings software.
Convert a file to VBOX
To convert other file formats to the "Virtualization Configuration" file type, you need software like Oracle VM VirtualBox or a similar tool.
About VBOX files
The .VBOX file is the XML-based configuration backbone for Oracle VM VirtualBox, defining the hardware specifications of a virtual machine (VM). It stores critical parameters including allocated RAM, CPU cores, network adapter types, and the file paths to virtual hard disks (like VDI or VMDK). While the XML format makes it human-readable, the file is proprietary to the VirtualBox ecosystem. A common drawback is portability; you cannot simply drag a .VBOX file into VMware Workstation or Microsoft Hyper-V and expect it to boot. The file often contains absolute system paths that break immediately if moved to a different host OS without careful preparation. Additionally, the .VBOX file does not contain the actual guest operating system data - only the roadmap for how to run it. For cross-platform migration, the standard workflow is converting (exporting) the machine to the Open Virtualization Format (OVF or OVA). For documentation, auditing, or troubleshooting purposes, users often convert the raw XML data to PDF or TXT to view settings without launching the hypervisor.
Convert.Guru analyzes your VBOX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert VBOX file to QCOW2, OVA, VMX, VMDK, OVF, INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML or YAML, you can use Oracle VM VirtualBox or similar software from the "Virtual Machine Configuration" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to VBOX, try Oracle VM VirtualBox or another comparable tool in the "Virtual Machine Configuration" category.
The VBOX 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 VBOX converter.