What is a .VBOX file?
VBOX is an Oracle VirtualBox virtual-machine settings file. Created by VirtualBox.
- Did you know
- A .vbox file holds an Oracle VirtualBox machine’s configuration, pointing to its separate virtual disks.
- VirtualBox began at innotek, which Sun Microsystems bought in 2008 before Oracle acquired Sun in 2010 and rebranded it Oracle VM VirtualBox.
- Oracle deliberately leaves the .vbox XML schema undocumented so it can change it freely, steering users to VBoxManage and the API instead of hand-editing.
- What Analyser reads
- Inspect virtual-machine descriptors (VMware .vmx, VirtualBox .vbox, OVF/OVA), disc images (Nero .nrg, Alcohol .mds/.mdf, CloneCD), embedded firmware (Intel HEX, Motorola S-record, UF2, ELF/AXF, Device Tree Blobs, U-Boot uImage), partition tables (MBR/GPT with GUIDs), Linux filesystem superblocks (ext2/3/4, SquashFS, cramfs, romfs) and Windows imaging (WIM/ESD) - reading headers directly, no upload.
- Depth of analysis
- .VBOX is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .VBOX file
- Drag a .VBOX file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.