vm-validator is used at run time in 21 crates. It is a direct run-time dependency in 3 crates. It's used only as a dev dependency in 1 crate.

Depender (with downloads and own rev deps) vm-validator version
7 aptos-mempool ^0.2.1
3 aptos-consensus dev ^0.2.1
5 aptos-api dev ^0.2.1