VMXF Converter

Extract text from VMXF files


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 your VMXF file to another format, you need VMware Workstation or other Settings software.

Convert a file to VMXF

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


About VMXF files

The .VMXF file is a supplemental configuration text file formatted in XML, primarily associated with VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion. Unlike the primary VMX configuration file which stores the core hardware settings, the .VMXF maintains metadata about the virtual machine's state, specifically handling "Team" data, player restrictions, and auxiliary attributes. While it is technically just a text file, the friction arises when users attempt to move or recover Virtual Machines; the .VMXF is often treated as a proprietary binary by the OS or lacks a default application association. Furthermore, manual editing is risky - a single syntax error in the XML structure can render the entire Virtual Machine unbootable. For safe inspection without accidentally modifying the file timestamp or encoding, users should convert .VMXF to standard TXT or XML formats. For IT documentation and compliance archiving, converting these configuration definitions to PDF is the industry best practice to preserve a snapshot of the VM's metadata settings.

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 Metadata" 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 Metadata" 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.