Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
Additional versions
(Note, Oracle Corporation publishes each variation of this file with the same version, but the hashes are unique.)
Relationships
Parent process
Related files
VBoxService.exe
Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions by Oracle Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 4.1.18.78361 |
| MD5: | dca96cfac7fceb749749a0f4e002489f |
| SHA1: | ab50abd6646d2ea1bb8b3c49b4853b39ea09112b |
What is VBoxService.exe?
VirtualBox Guest Additions Service is part of Oracle VM VirtualBox, an x86 virtualization software package developed by Oracle Corporation as part of its family of virtualization products. Oracle VM VirtualBox is installed on an existing host operating system as an application; this host application allows additional guest operating systems, each known as a Guest OS, to be loaded and run, each with its own virtual environment.
About VBoxService.exe (from Oracle Corporation)
“VirtualBox is powerful Cross-platform Virtualization Software for x86-based systems. "Cross-platform" means that it installs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris x86 computers. And "Virtualization ”
Details
| File name: | vboxservice.exe |
| Publisher: | Oracle Corporation |
| Product name: | Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions |
| Description: | VirtualBox Guest Additions Service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\vboxservice.exe |
| File version: | 4.1.18.78361 |
| Product version: | 4.1.18.r78361 |
| Size: | 1.35 MB (1,414,488 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Oracle Corporation |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET |
| .NET CLR: | Yes |
| .NET NGENed: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'VBoxService' (VirtualBox Guest Additions Service)
- VBoxService
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00324078% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00218786% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00105292% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 951 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 4,227/sec | |
| Context switches: | 1/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 1.83 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 2.33 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 2.29 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 1.83 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 35.95 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 37.22 MB | |
| Working set: | 2.31 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 5.24 MB | |
| Page faults: | 8,459/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O other transfer: | 35 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 12 | |
| Handles: | 112 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | system32\vboxservice.exe |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | VBoxService |
| Display name: | VirtualBox Guest Additions Service |
| Description: | “Manages VM runtime information, time synchronization, remote sysprep execution and miscellaneous utilities for guest operating systems.” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate N |
72.67% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
18.00% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
8.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
1.33% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 100.00% of Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions.
