Physical Disk Helper Service - what is this ?

[rchin]

"VMware Physical Disk Helper Service" - I think this is a service under (Windows) Guest.

What is this for ? Under what circumstance can I have it disabled ?

thanks

WS 6.5.1-126130

Host: Vista SP1

Guests: Ubuntu 8.04, XP

[rchin]

bump

anyone know what this service is for ?

WS 6.5.1-126130

Host: Vista SP1

Guests: Ubuntu 8.04, XP

[jokke]

Have not heard of that service.

Is it a service in the host or guest? What binaries are tied to it? Is it listed when launching services.msc? What is the desciption of the service and what does it depend on?

Joakim

[continuum]

Have never heard of that one either

I'd like to see the corresponding entires in registry

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VMX-parameters- VMware-liveCD - VM-Sickbay

[jokke]

Is your "vista host" a vm (ie nested)?

[KevinG]

This background service is installed by VMware Tool.

Do you run your VM using a physical disk?

or did you create this VM in fusion and it was part of a boot camp partition?

[rchin]

Here is the service entry in the Guest.

Is your "vista host" a vm (ie nested)?

oh, no, it is physical.

[rchin]

This background service is installed by VMware Tool.

Do you run your VM using a physical disk?

or did you create this VM in fusion and it was part of a boot camp partition?

I'm not sure what "VM using a physical disk" mean.

My VMs have always been on v-disk-files.

No I have no experience w/ Fusion either.

thanks

[jokke]

If you created this vm yourself and you know it has never been on a mac with fusion, then you should probably consider this as potential malware.

Joakim