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 VBOX settings files to another format, you need Oracle VM VirtualBox or other Settings software.
Convert a file to VBOX
To convert other file formats to the "Virtual Machine Config" file type, you need software like Oracle VM VirtualBox or a similar tool.
About VBOX files
The .VBOX file is an internal settings format used by Oracle VM VirtualBox to save virtual machine (VM) configurations. These files store crucial hardware parameters, including allocated RAM, virtual hard drive mappings, network adapter settings, and display configurations. While highly effective for managing virtual environments natively, the .VBOX format has notable limitations outside of the Oracle ecosystem. It relies on a proprietary XML schema specific to VirtualBox. This means you cannot simply import it into VMware or Hyper-V without specialized migration tools. The file is useless without the corresponding virtual disk file, such as a .VDI or .VMDK. Furthermore, manually editing this file can easily corrupt the virtual machine if the strict syntax is broken. You might need to convert a .VBOX file if you are migrating to a different hypervisor, or if you simply need to extract the configuration data for documentation. The best conversion targets are generic text formats like .XML, .TXT, or .JSON. Converting to .OVF (Open Virtualization Format) is the standard for VM migration, but this usually requires exporting the entire appliance from within VirtualBox itself, not just converting the settings file. Because this is a highly specific, proprietary XML structure, standard online file converters usually fail to process it meaningfully. They cannot translate the VirtualBox-specific hardware mappings into formats understood by other software. However, convert.guru offers a practical workaround. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. Our system can inspect the raw text data, allowing you to safely read the configuration values even if you do not have VirtualBox installed.
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.