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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 id="project">Project Links</a> <a class="headerlink" href="#project" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a> </h2> <ul> <li> The <a href="http://www.vmware.com/">VMware Workstation and Player</a> hypervisors </li> <li> The <a href="http://www.vmware.com/fusion">VMware Fusion</a> hypervisor </li> </ul> <h2>Connections to VMware driver</h2> <p> The libvirt VMware driver provides per-user drivers (the "session" instance). Three uris are available: </p> <ul> <li>"vmwareplayer" for VMware Player</li> <li>"vmwarews" for VMware Workstation</li> <li>"vmwarefusion" for VMware Fusion</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) vmwarefusion:///session (local access to VMware Fusion 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 id="xmlconfig">Example domain XML config</a> <a class="headerlink" href="#xmlconfig" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</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="nav"> <div id="home"> <a href="index.html">Home</a> </div> <div id="jumplinks"> <ul> <li> <a href="downloads.html">Download</a> </li> <li> <a href="contribute.html">Contribute</a> </li> <li> <a href="docs.html">Docs</a> </li> </ul> </div> <div id="search"> <form action="search.php" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" method="get"> <div> <input name="query" type="text" size="12" value=""/> <input name="submit" type="submit" value="Go"/> </div> </form> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="contact"> <h3>Contact</h3> <ul> <li> <a href="contact.html#email">email</a> </li> <li> <a href="contact.html#irc">irc</a> </li> </ul> </div> <div id="community"> <h3>Community</h3> <ul> <li> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/libvirt">twitter</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://plus.google.com/communities/109522598353007505282">google+</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/libvirt">stackoverflow</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/libvirt">serverfault</a> </li> </ul> </div> <div id="conduct"> Participants in the libvirt project agree to abide by <a href="governance.html#codeofconduct">the project code of conduct</a></div> <br class="clear"/> </div> </body> </html>