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Virtual machine, virtualization software related files

71 file extensions

File extensions used for virtual machines, virtual machine disk drives and other important configuration and setting files used by virtualization software

This category of file types contains various files used by virtualization software, including their main data files, configuration, settings, disk images, logs, temporary or cache files.

Virtual machine is a software emulated computer system with virtualized hardware components (processor, video card, memory, storage etc.), which like a physical machine, runs an operating system and it's apps. Emulated hardware devices provide the same functionality as physical hardware.

A typical virtual machine is comprised of several types of files, that contains configuration files (VMX, VMXF, PVI, VBOX), virtual storage files (VMDK, HDD, VDI) and other like virtual machine snapshots, swap files, logs.

Virtualization is useful for running different operating systems on one physical computer machine. This is used to run suspicious apps, testing uhuthorized system settings, to emulate old operating systems and run old apps, or virtualizing different hardware architectures. Other benefits of virtualized system are portability, manageability, and security.

Two major classifications of virtual machine exists:

  • A system virtual machine - a complete emulated platform with entire operating system (VMware Workstation, Parallels Desktop, VirtualBox).
  • A process virtual machine - used to run and emulate environment for a one app in operating system (Microsoft .NET, JAVA runtime environments).

All file extensions in category: Virtual machine, virtualization software related file

71 file extensions

appdata
.appdata
VMware cache
appicon
.appicon
VMWare cache
appinfo
.appinfo
VMware Workstation appData cache file
avhd
.avhd
Microsoft Hyper-V differencing disk data
conf
.conf
Configuration information
dsk
.dsk
VMware virtual disk
efd
.efd
Parallels Desktop related data
fdd
.fdd
Parallels virtual machine floppy disk drive image
fm
.fm
VMware data
hdd
.hdd
Parallels Desktop or Workstation virtual hard disk
hds
.hds
Parallels Desktop hard disk image
hlog
.hlog
VMware Workstation log
img
.img
QEMU Qcow disk image
kbd
.kbd
Parallels Desktop preference file
mem
.mem
Parallels virtual machine memory dump
menudata
.menudata
VMWare cache data
nvram
.nvram
VMware VM BIOS state
ova
.ova
Open Virtual Machine Format single archive
ovf
.ovf
Open Virtualization Format package file
pki
.pki
LibVirt PKI data
psf
.psf
Parallels shared folders
pvc
.pvc
Parallels Desktop copied configuration file
pvi
.pvi
Parallels Tools settings
pvm
.pvm
Parallels Desktop virtual machine
pvs
.pvs
Parallels configuration data
qcow
.qcow
QEMU Copy-On-Write data
qcow2
.qcow2
QEMU Copy-On-Write data
qvm
.qvm
Q virtual machine
r0
.r0
VirtualBox data
scoreboard
.scoreboard
Virtual machine performance and state metadata file
std
.std
VMware suspended state data
syndarticle
.syndarticle
Paralllels Desktop data
tvr
.tvr
VMware ThinApp virtual registry data
vbox
.vbox
VirtualBox settings
vbox-extpack
.vbox-extpack
VirtualBox extension pack file
vcb
.vcb
VMware Consolidated Backup archive
vdi
.vdi
VirtualBox disk image
vfd
.vfd
Virtual PC virtual floppy disk image
vhd
.vhd
Virtual Hard Disk file
vhdx
.vhdx
Microsoft Windows Hyper-V virtual hard disk
vmac
.vmac
VMware configuration data
vmba
.vmba
VMware configuration
vmc
.vmc
Microsoft Virtual PC settings
vmcx
.vmcx
Microsoft Virtual PC virtual machine shell information
vmdk
.vmdk
VMware virtual disk
vmdk-converttmp
.vmdk-converttmp
VMware Fusion temporary data
vmem
.vmem
VMware virtual machine's paging data
vmhf
.vmhf
VMware ACE hot fix
vmhr
.vmhr
VMware ACE hot fix file
vmlog
.vmlog
VMware replay recording
vmoapp
.vmoapp
VMware vCenter Orchestrator application
vmpl
.vmpl
WMvare policy data
vmsd
.vmsd
VMware snapshots and metadata
vmsg
.vmsg
VMware log file
vmsn
.vmsn
VMware snapshot state
vmss
.vmss
VMware suspended state
vmt
.vmt
VMware configuration
vmtm
.vmtm
VMware team configuration
vmwarevm
.vmwarevm
VMware virtual machine package
vmx
.vmx
VMware configuration data file
vmxa
.vmxa
VMware ACE master configuration
vmxf
.vmxf
VMware team virtual machine configuration
vpc6
.vpc6
Virtual machine package
vpc7
.vpc7
Virtual machine package
vsv
.vsv
Virtual machine's memory saved-state
vswp
.vswp
VMware virtual memory data
vud
.vud
Microsoft Virtual PC virtual machine undo data
xml-prev
.xml-prev
VirtualBox XML settings backup
xva
.xva
Citrix Xen Virtual Appliance data
xvm
.xvm
VMware console configuration
zrp
.zrp
VMware Unix Agent debug data