Any other suggestions on how to hide the process from windows or hide it from other processes like running in a VM of its own.

:) Stop trying :) hiding process on windows is all about DLL injection and manipulating win32 structs -- its not easy, its not recommended, and it probably won't work for whatever you're trying to do -- its even harder to do post win2k because of improvements in windows -- for all you know the program is creating a mutex or a socket, nothing to do with being listed in taskmanager