Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your XVM file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert XVM to another file type
To convert XVM Config files to another format, you need Control Expert or other Data software.
Convert a file to XVM
To convert other file formats to the "Industrial Control File" file type, you need software like Control Expert or a similar tool.
About XVM files
The .XVM file extension primarily represents an XML-based PLC variable exchange file used by Schneider Electric industrial automation software, specifically EcoStruxure Control Expert (formerly Unity Pro). A secondary but widespread use is as a proprietary game modification data file for the popular World of Tanks add-on, XVM Mod. In the industrial context, engineers use .XVM files to export, share, and import Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) tags and variables between different projects. However, the current format has significant disadvantages. Schneider's .XVM requires massive, expensive, and licensed proprietary software to open and modify correctly. The gaming variant is even more closed, acting as an unreadable configuration asset that standard editors cannot parse. Users often need to convert industrial .XVM files to CSV, TXT, or standard XML to audit data in Microsoft Excel without installing a 3GB+ engineering suite. Converting to these standard targets drops proprietary project bindings but preserves the core variable names and memory addresses. Because .XVM files serve strictly niche domain purposes - either complex industrial schema or compiled game mods - standard online converters completely fail to process them. These generic tools do not understand Schneider's internal XML structure or the mod's byte layout. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. However, just drag and drop your file to convert.guru to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. Our platform can inspect the file, reveal the internal XML structure or raw text, and if an embedded or supported underlying format is detected, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your XVM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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FAQ
If you want to convert XVM file to INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV, PROPERTIES or RC, you can use Control Expert or similar software from the "PLC Variable Exchange Data" 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 XVM, try Control Expert or another comparable tool in the "PLC Variable Exchange Data" category.
The XVM 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 XVM converter.