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2 VMware Workstation / Player / Fusion hypervisors driver
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5 The libvirt VMware driver should be able to manage any Workstation, Player,
6 Fusion version supported by the VMware VIX API. See the compatibility list
7 `here <https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vix-api/vix110_reference/>`__.
9 This driver uses the "vmrun" utility which is distributed with the VMware VIX
10 API. You can download the VIX API from
11 `here <https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vix-api/>`__.
16 - The `VMware Workstation and Player <https://www.vmware.com/>`__ hypervisors
17 - The `VMware Fusion <https://www.vmware.com/fusion>`__ hypervisor
19 Connections to VMware driver
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22 The libvirt VMware driver provides per-user drivers (the "session" instance).
23 Three uris are available:
25 - "vmwareplayer" for VMware Player
26 - "vmwarews" for VMware Workstation
27 - "vmwarefusion" for VMware Fusion
29 Some example connection URIs for the driver are:
33 vmwareplayer:///session (local access to VMware Player per-user instance)
34 vmwarews:///session (local access to VMware Workstation per-user instance)
35 vmwarefusion:///session (local access to VMware Fusion per-user instance)
36 vmwarews+tcp://user@example.com/session (remote access to VMware Workstation, SASl/Kerberos)
37 vmwarews+ssh://user@example.com/session (remote access to VMware Workstation, SSH tunnelled)
39 Example domain XML config
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44 <domain type='vmware'>
46 <uuid>bea92244-8885-4562-828b-3b086731c5b1</uuid>
52 <memory>524288</memory>
61 <disk type='file' device='disk'>
62 <source file='/home/user/tmp/disk.vmdk'/>
63 <target bus='ide' dev='hda'/>
66 <interface type='bridge'>
67 <target dev='/dev/vmnet1'/>
69 <mac address='00:16:3e:5d:c7:9e'/>