vmware-tray.exe
Summary
VMware Tools Tray - system tray icon for VMware Tools in guest virtual machines.
vmware-tray.exe is the 1287th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,097 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation and it is most often launched by runonce.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- bc98ecbe4e05028b614ae75e6febc373d9ef15736c633a39b782cf4e7b30c64467.88%
- 09659c76499b18dbd53758b527025778f356dbb75e0b7f6242b430cb0f5ebd4f17.97%
- 11d9c2008c8b4c0ea69e7c7c2e95045f5fc35c046ef58ee747ae9a94581ff5885.87%
- 9a44e7ed322846cb97512b1dce6df0a5f38d189027a7fc0cf2d7a7e52388d2724.1%
- 55d388191d661a48589dea78f8de89652191e0a67d15ababaa2cf3a29be1de441.77%
- 4abe88544473d6ead86014e3726fb56117b335c13d1cc17aaac62012477977cb0.74%
- bbe9f8a2c44901321e6fc0fbc262daa88c10bf82fe16a6f183a8a13aa15afba90.74%
- e276e649670094938430d5b2749fd440d556222e02459e52dbbcdd857d8193dd0.65%
- 84261cb99ca49675696465d2b84073458e4b1309adb9d5d1ba1319d9e51004330.28%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- explorer.exe93.7%
- chrome.exe4.4%
- vmware-tray.exe0.7%
- vmware.exe0.4%
- OpenWith.exe0.1%
Top Parents
- runonce.exe65.45%
- vmware.exe34.55%
Top Children
- vmware.exe100%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.