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There are 2 versions of vmware-hostd.exe in the wild, the latest version being . It is started as a Windows Service called 'VMware Workstation Server' with the name 'VMwareHostd' and described as “Remote access service for registration and management of virtual machines.”. . In addition, it is run under the context of the SYSTEM account with extensive privileges (the administrator accounts have the same privileges). The average file size is about 6.47 MB. The file is a digitally signed and issued to VMware by VeriSign. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0000% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 41.83 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 55.59 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 139.11 KB per minute for reads and 120.71 KB per minute for writes.

vmware-hostd is a common library for VMWare products. VMware software provides a completely virtualized set of hardware to the guest operating system. VMware software virtualizes the hardware for a video adapter, a network adapter, and hard disk adapters. The host provides pass-through drivers for guest USB, serial, and parallel devices. In this way, VMware virtual machines become highly portable between computers, because every host looks nearly identical to the guest.