.VMXF File Format

Introduction

A .vmxf file is a supplemental configuration file of a VMware virtual machine: VMware's article on the contents of a Fusion bundle describes it only as "a supplemental configuration file". It sits beside the .vmx as <name>.vmxf. Other VMware pages say it holds data about the teams a machine belongs to (Workstation's team feature, now gone) and that it is kept for compatibility, but no source read gives its schema.

Structure

The file is XML. Beyond that, nothing about its structure is documented in a source read for this page: VMware publishes no schema, and the pages found that mention its elements quote single example files only. So this page does not list elements. The viewer reads the file as XML (the same tree and text as any XML file) and adds nothing of its own.

Not described

Unknown

• Reference: the elements, attributes and values of the file. No public specification was found; they would have to be worked out from real files.
• Viewer: the file is shown as generic XML, with no meaning given to any element.

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