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| Company Name | VMware Inc. | | Founded | Palo Alto, California, USA, 1998 | | Key people | Joseph M. Tucci (Chairman)\ Carl M. Eschenbach (COO) \ Pat Gelsinger (CEO) | | Revenue | US$ 4.61 billion (2012) | | Operating income | US$ 872 million (2012) | | Number of employees | 13,800 (December 31, 2012) | | Industry | Computer software | | Home page | VMware.com |
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VMware, Inc. is an American software company that provides cloud and virtualization software and services. It was founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary.
VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, while VMware's enterprise software hypervisors for servers, VMware ESX and VMware ESXi, are bare-metal embedded hypervisors that run directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system. |
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Click here for description | | Icon status | No tray icon | | Icon setting | Not in the system tray | | Executable file | C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\VMUpgradeHelper.exe | | Version | 8.4.8 build-491717 | | Parent process | C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe | | Can be uninstalled | Yes | | Encrypted | No | | Size on disk | 170.6 Kb | | Minimum recorded memory usage | 1.7 Mb | | Average recorded memory usage | 1.8 Mb | | Maximum recorded memory usage | 3.9 Mb | | Date when maximum memory usage occured | 22.01.2012 10:59:38 | | Minimum recorded CPU usage | 0% | | Average recorded CPU usage | 0% | | Maximum recorded CPU usage | 3% | | Date when maximum CPU usage occured | 22.01.2012 10:59:46 | | Started at | 22.01.2012 10:58:34 | | Total CPU time | 0 seconds | | Imported functions | [-] Imported from KERNEL32.dllVerSetConditionMask InterlockedDecrement GetModuleFileNameW OutputDebugStringA FreeLibrary LocalAlloc VerifyVersionInfoW InterlockedExchange TerminateProcess GetSystemTimeAsFileTime GetCurrentProcessId GetCurrentThreadId LoadLibraryA GetProcAddress DuplicateHandle OutputDebugStringW CreateFileW SetFilePointer GetFileSizeEx WriteFile WaitForSingleObjectEx ResetEvent InitializeCriticalSection Sleep WaitForMultipleObjectsEx CloseHandle DeleteCriticalSection EnterCriticalSection LeaveCriticalSection GetCurrentProcess SetEvent CreateEventW GetLastError LocalFree IsDebuggerPresent UnhandledExceptionFilter GetTickCount QueryPerformanceCounter SetUnhandledExceptionFilter InterlockedCompareExchange
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| | Some relevant texts from the exe file | [-] Click here to hide detailshttp://www.vmware.com/0 http://crl.verisign.com/pca3.crl0) http://ocsp.verisign.com01 http://logo.verisign.com/vslogo.gif0 https://www.verisign.com/rpa0 https://www.verisign.com/cps0* http://ocsp.verisign.com0? 0http://crl.verisign.com/ThawteTimestampingCA.crl0 http://ocsp.verisign.com0 http://crl.verisign.com/tss-ca.crl0 !This program cannot be run in DOS mode. Save or restore network adapter configuration. /s Saves network configuration into the registry. /i Installs the /u Removes the VMUpgradeHelper service removed successfully. Service removal failed. service installed successfully. Service installation failed. Net config restored successfully. Restore network config failed. Net config saved successfully. Save network config failed. s: Function s returned error 0x CoInitializeSecurity s: Failed to get value , using default. s: Getting configuration value VMUpgradeHelperService::GetConfigValue s: Failed to register for device notifications. VMUpgradeHelperService::OnInit NetConfigSaved NetConfigSaveOnShutdown NetConfigSaveOnStop NetConfigRestoreOnStart Software\VMware, Inc.\VMware Tools\VMUpgradeHelper Failed to create event source in registry! s: Event source created successfully. VMUpgradeHelperMsgs.dll s: Creating event source in registry. VMUpgradeHelperService::CreateEventSource EventMessageFile TypesSupported Failed to create event source! Failed to set description for service. ChangServiceConfig2 error 0x Virtual hardware upgrade helper service Failed to create service. CreateServiceW error 0x VMware Upgrade Helper Failed to open handle to service control manager. OpenSCManagerW error 0x Failed to get path for image file. GetModuleFileNameEx error 0x DeleteServiceW error 0x Failed to remove service. OpenServiceW error 0x map/set<T> too long s: Device name is not in expected format. VMUpgradeHelperService::GetDeviceIdForName invalid map/set<T> iterator s: Device name: s: lpEventData pointer is NULL! VMUpgradeHelperService::OnDeviceEvent s: Restoring device VMUpgradeHelperService::RestoreNetConfig s: Caught exception! Restore failed for device. t find matching vNIC, device not restored. s: Device already restored. s: Got device name VMUpgradeHelperService::RestoreDeviceOnArrival @WaitForMultipleObjectsEx s: Wait failed, service will stop. s: Got device arrival event. s: Got stop/shutdown event. s: ***WARNING***: Caught COM error VMUpgradeHelperService::Run DebugLogFile DebugLogEnabled RegisterEventSource s: Failed to register event source bad allocation @Registry value has mismatched type. @DuplicateHandle s: Failed to duplicate handle <0x s: Failed to create key RegistryKey::create s: Failed to delete key RegDeleteValueW s: Failed to delete value RegistryKey::deleteValue RegSetValueExW s: Failed to set value RegistryKey::setValue s: Failed to open key RegistryKey::open RegQueryValueExW s: Failed to query value RegistryKey::getDWORD RegistryKey::setDWORD Registry error 0x s: Failed to enumerate key at index RegQueryInfoKeyW s: Failed to get information for key. RegEnumValueW s: Failed to enumerate value at index RegistryKey::getValues u bytes failed. RegistryKey::getValue SetupDiCallClassInstaller s: Failed to change device state. SetupDiSetClassInstallParams s: Failed to set class install parameters. s: Opened device instance SetupDiOpenDeviceInfo s: Failed to open device instance. SetupDiCreateDeviceInfoList s: Failed to create device information list. NetworkAdapter::applyRegistryChanges s: Failed to convert GUID s: Failed to create GUID from string GetProcAddress s: Failed to get address of function ConvertInterfaceGuidToLuid LoadLibraryA s: Failed to load library MyConvertInterfaceGuidToLuid iphlpapi.dll InterfaceGUID s: Failed to get saved device ID. NetworkAdapter::getSavedPNPDeviceID s: Failed to get saved interface GUID. NetworkAdapter::getSavedGUID NetworkAdapter::restore lx, exception thrown. ConnectToCimV2Namespace s: Not a virtual ethernet adapter; skipped. s: Read configuration for NetworkAdapterFactory::getNetworkAdapters lx> threw exception from undo()! Transaction::rollback lx> threw exception, rolling back. Transaction::commit deque<T> too long s: ReleaseWriteLock error s: Failed to release NetCfg write lock. NetCfgWriteLock::release s: AcquireWriteLock error s: Failed to acquire NetCfg write lock. s: QueryInterface error s: Failed to query for INetCfgLock interface. s: CoCreateInstance error s: Failed to create instance of INetCfg interface. NetCfgWriteLock::acquire Win32_NetworkAdapterSetting::getProperty @Win32_NetworkAdapterSetting::getElement Win32_NetworkAdapterSetting::getSetting GetNetworkAdapterSettings SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterSetting Win32_NetworkAdapter::getMACAddress Win32_NetworkAdapter::getPNPDeviceID Win32_NetworkAdapter::getServiceName ServiceName Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration::getProperty Service Uninstall Could not remove s removed. 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