This process acts as a bridge—a "broker"—between your main application and external plugins or hardware. When it stops, functionality like extensions, digital signatures, or hardware communication usually breaks. Here is how to get it back up and running. 1. Restart the Parent Application
usb.generic.allowHID = "FALSE" plugin.companion.enable = "TRUE" plugin companion broker process is not running
Temporarily disable real-time antivirus, firewalls, and any “PC cleaner” utilities. If the error disappears, add VMware executables to the software’s exclusion list. This process acts as a bridge—a "broker"—between your
The error message "plugin companion broker process is not running" indicates a failure in a subsidiary architectural component responsible for managing communication between a host application and its plugins. This specific error suggests that the host application successfully initialized, but the separate background process (the "Broker") intended to handle plugin lifecycle or inter-process communication (IPC) failed to start or crashed immediately upon launch. The error message "plugin companion broker process is