diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 045836473..b4e7b9f40 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ BUG FIXES:
 * amazon-ebs: Sleep between checking instance state to avoid
   RequestLimitExceeded [GH-50]
 * vagrant: Rename VirtualBox ovf to "box.ovf" [GH-64]
+* vagrant: VMware boxes have the correct provider type.
 * vmware: Properly populate files in artifact so that the Vagrant
   post-processor works. [GH-63]
 
diff --git a/post-processor/vagrant/vmware.go b/post-processor/vagrant/vmware.go
index c2913bab9..a9412c6e4 100644
--- a/post-processor/vagrant/vmware.go
+++ b/post-processor/vagrant/vmware.go
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ func (p *VMwareBoxPostProcessor) PostProcess(ui packer.Ui, artifact packer.Artif
 	}
 
 	// Create the metadata
-	metadata := map[string]string{"provider": "vmware"}
+	metadata := map[string]string{"provider": "vmware_desktop"}
 	if err := WriteMetadata(dir, metadata); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}