VMXF Converter

Extract text from VMware metadata files (VMXF)


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

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

Convert VMXF to another file type

To convert VMXF metadata files to another format, you need VMware Workstation or other Settings software.

Convert a file to VMXF

To convert other file formats to the "Virtual Machine Configuration File" file type, you need software like VMware Workstation or a similar tool.


About VMXF files

The .VMXF file is a supplemental configuration document used by virtualisation software to store metadata, client attributes, and team grouping data for virtual machines. These files are predominantly generated and managed by VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion. Users often need to access these files when auditing virtual machine configurations, migrating infrastructure, or recovering corrupted VM states. However, installing a heavy, expensive hypervisor suite simply to read a few settings is highly impractical. The file is deeply integrated into the proprietary VMware ecosystem, making it confusing for users who expect a standard configuration file. The best target formats for a .VMXF file are XML, TXT, or JSON. Converting to these text-based formats allows system administrators to read and parse the configuration programmatically without losing the hierarchical data structure. While VMware configurations are proprietary, the underlying structure of a .VMXF file is standard XML. This file format is difficult to open for average users who do not have the native software installed. Just drag and drop your file into convert.guru to see what it is, inspect the raw XML content, and convert it if supported.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert VMXF file to INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV, PROPERTIES or RC, you can use VMware Workstation or similar software from the "Virtual Machine Supplemental 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 VMXF, try VMware Workstation or another comparable tool in the "Virtual Machine Supplemental Configuration" category.



The VMXF 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 VMXF converter.