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