Remove applications in virtual machine (via VMWare Fusion) from Open With options on Mac OS X

Solution 1:

VMWare 3.1.2

• Go to Virtual Machine > Settings > Applications > Default Applications
• Uncheck the box: "Open your Mac files and web links using XX applications

Parallels 6.0

• Go to Virtual Machine > Configure > Applications
• Uncheck the box: "Share windows applications with Mac"

Solution 2:

To complete @nuc answer, you also need to

• shutdown your virtual machine
• navigate to it in the Finder
• right-click Show Package Content
• delete the Applications folder

Solution 3:

If you are using VMWare 3.x, you can try the Steps mentioned in this Article from the VMWare-Community.

Additionally, you can trash the file "com.apple.LaunchServices.plist" found in ~/Library/Prefences. The List of Applications listed in the context-menu will be rebuild the next time you try to open a file via the context menu