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Virtual machine, virtualization software related file type extensions
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File extensions used for virtual machines, virtual machine disk drives and other important configuration and setting files used by virtualization software
Virtual machine, virtualization software related file extension list
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).
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file extension ova | Open Virtual Machine Format single archive |
file extension conf | Configuration information |
file extension vbox-extpack | VirtualBox extension pack file |
![]() | VirtualBox disk image |
![]() | Virtual Hard Disk file |
![]() | VMware virtual machine's paging data |
VMware virtual disk | |
file extension xml-prev | VirtualBox XML settings backup |
file extension qcow2 | QEMU Copy-On-Write data |
![]() | Open Virtualization Format package file |
![]() | Microsoft Windows Hyper-V virtual hard disk |
![]() | VMware configuration data file |
file extension pvm | Parallels Desktop virtual machine |
![]() | VMware VM BIOS state |
file extension avhd | Microsoft Hyper-V differencing disk data |
![]() | Microsoft Virtual PC settings |
![]() | Parallels Desktop or Workstation virtual hard disk |
file extension vbox | VirtualBox settings |
file extension fdd | Parallels virtual machine floppy disk drive image |
file extension vmwarevm | VMware virtual machine package |
![]() | Virtual PC virtual floppy disk image |
file extension menudata | VMWare cache data |
![]() | Parallels configuration data |
file extension appinfo | VMware Workstation appData cache file |
file extension pvc | Parallels Desktop copied configuration file |
file extension xva | Citrix Xen Virtual Appliance data |
file extension hds | Parallels Desktop hard disk image |
![]() | VMware snapshots and metadata |
file extension appicon | VMWare cache |
file extension efd | Parallels Desktop related data |
![]() | VMware team virtual machine configuration |
file extension appdata | VMware cache |
file extension vmcx | Microsoft Virtual PC virtual machine shell information |
![]() | VirtualBox data |
![]() | VMware log file |
file extension vswp | VMware virtual memory data |
file extension dsk | VMware virtual disk |
![]() | VMware Consolidated Backup archive |
![]() | VMware suspended state |
![]() | VMware snapshot state |
![]() | VMware Workstation log |
file extension vmoapp | VMware vCenter Orchestrator application |
file extension zrp | VMware Unix Agent debug data |
file extension mem | Parallels virtual machine memory dump |
file extension img | QEMU Qcow disk image |
![]() | Virtual machine's memory saved-state |
file extension psf | Parallels shared folders |
file extension vmac | VMware configuration data |
file extension qcow | QEMU Copy-On-Write data |
file extension xvm | VMware console configuration |
file extension qvm | Q virtual machine |
file extension tvr | VMware ThinApp virtual registry data |
file extension std | VMware suspended state data |
file extension vmlog | VMware replay recording |
file extension vmdk-converttmp | VMware Fusion temporary data |
![]() | Microsoft Virtual PC virtual machine undo data |
VMware team configuration | |
file extension pki | LibVirt PKI data |
![]() | VMware ACE master configuration |
file extension vmpl | WMvare policy data |
![]() | VMware ACE hot fix |
![]() | VMware data |
file extension vpc6 | Virtual machine package |
file extension vmt | VMware configuration |
file extension vpc7 | Virtual machine package |
file extension pvi | Parallels Tools settings |
file extension syndarticle | Paralllels Desktop data |
file extension vmba | VMware configuration |
file extension kbd | Parallels Desktop preference file |
![]() | VMware ACE hot fix file |