vmware.exe
by VMware / Broadcom
Virtualization
Summary
VMware Workstation main application
vmware.exe is the 1844th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 385 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
1844th
most commonly executed Windows program
385
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 30378925cae2a982f9be762e14e1e94e489f7c66bad22403e71b39cb1668947375.8%
- 5763af1cc445cd70d5e06b09ec55ae271271ec1b895deb23e64de62d081fbd1418.35%
- 675255f8bc8233790a8c5a19396c91bf3db2d064fc90afa1f5f77fbbe9c8d7361.86%
- ea896666e136a3944a050d9f6811754f0c06498ecc2d60b9d8f8d4a02557bac61.6%
- 8459e8558bea6dcdc38e6e20ad5dadd0716ac46302f2816bf2d04fa2ef1cccad1.33%
- 42817e8e889bafe35eada150e446144fc0e2a09b11cc4b6eb74daef250c052d30.8%
- f8709fe483f606928f2553f0192a661fa1c515148a278ef5638acc1a943e4a4a0.27%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe75.09%
- explorer.exe13.65%
- svchost.exe2.73%
- OUTLOOK.EXE2.05%
- runonce.exe1.37%
- WerFault.exe1.37%
- RuntimeBroker.exe1.02%
- WINWORD.EXE1.02%
- Taskmgr.exe0.68%
- chrome.exe0.34%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe82.34%
- chrome.exe12.73%
- RuntimeBroker.exe1.82%
- vmware-tray.exe1.82%
- vmware.exe1.04%
- OpenWith.exe0.26%
Top Children
- vmware-remotemks.exe32.97%
- vmware-tray.exe31.4%
- vmware-unity-helper.exe31.32%
- vmware.exe0.33%
- vmware-vmx.exe0.17%
- chrome.exe0.08%
- pcaui.exe0.08%
- WerFault.exe0.08%
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.