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<a title="Overview of all content on the website" class="inactive" href="sitemap.html">Sitemap</a> </div> </li></ul> </div> <div id="content"> <h1>VMware Workstation / Player hypervisors driver</h1> <p> The libvirt VMware Workstation driver should be able to manage any Workstation and Player version supported by the VMware VIX API. See the compatibility list <a href="http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vix-api/vix110_reference/">here</a>. </p> <p> This driver uses the "vmrun" utility which is distributed with the VMware VIX API. You can download the VIX API from <a href="http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vix-api/">here</a>. </p> <h2> <a name="project" id="project">Project Links</a> </h2> <ul><li> The <a href="http://www.vmware.com/">VMware Workstation and Player</a> hypervisors </li></ul> <h2>Connections to VMware driver</h2> <p> The libvirt VMware driver provides per-user drivers (the "session" instance). Two uris are available: </p> <ul><li>"vmwareplayer" for VMware Player</li><li>"vmwarews" for VMware Workstation</li></ul> <p> Some example connection URIs for the driver are: </p> <pre> vmwareplayer:///session (local access to VMware Player per-user instance) vmwarews:///session (local access to VMware Workstation per-user instance) vmwarews+tcp://user@example.com/session (remote access to VMware Workstation, SASl/Kerberos) vmwarews+ssh://user@example.com/session (remote access to VMware Workstation, SSH tunnelled) </pre> <h2> <a name="xmlconfig" id="xmlconfig">Example domain XML config</a> </h2> <pre> <domain type='vmware'> <name>vmware</name> <uuid>bea92244-8885-4562-828b-3b086731c5b1</uuid> <os> <type>hvm</type> </os> <memory>524288</memory> <vcpu>1</vcpu> <features> <pae/> <acpi/> </features> <devices> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <source file='/home/user/tmp/disk.vmdk'/> <target bus='ide' dev='hda'/> </disk> <interface type='bridge'> <target dev='/dev/vmnet1'/> <source bridge=''/> <mac address='00:16:3e:5d:c7:9e'/> </interface> </devices> </domain> </pre> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <p id="sponsor"> Sponsored by:<br /><a href="http://et.redhat.com/"><img src="et.png" alt="Project sponsored by Red Hat Emerging Technology" /></a></p> </div> </body> </html>