docs/drvvmware.html.in

   1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   2 <!DOCTYPE html>
   3 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
   4     <body>
   5         <h1>VMware Workstation / Player / Fusion hypervisors driver</h1>
   6         <p>
   7         The libvirt VMware driver should be able to manage any Workstation,
   8         Player, Fusion version supported by the VMware VIX API. See the
   9         compatibility list
  10         <a href="http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vix-api/vix110_reference/">here</a>.
  11     </p>
  12     <p>
  13     This driver uses the "vmrun" utility which is distributed with the VMware VIX API.
  14     You can download the VIX API
  15     from <a href="http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vix-api/">here</a>.
  16     </p>
  17
  18     <h2><a id="project">Project Links</a></h2>
  19
  20     <ul>
  21       <li>
  22         The <a href="http://www.vmware.com/">VMware Workstation and
  23         Player</a> hypervisors
  24       </li>
  25       <li>
  26         The <a href="http://www.vmware.com/fusion">VMware Fusion</a>
  27         hypervisor
  28       </li>
  29     </ul>
  30
  31     <h2>Connections to VMware driver</h2>
  32
  33     <p>
  34     The libvirt VMware driver provides per-user drivers (the "session" instance).
  35     Three uris are available:
  36     </p>
  37     <ul>
  38       <li>"vmwareplayer" for VMware Player</li>
  39       <li>"vmwarews" for VMware Workstation</li>
  40       <li>"vmwarefusion" for VMware Fusion</li>
  41     </ul>
  42     <p>
  43     Some example connection URIs for the driver are:
  44     </p>
  45
  46 <pre>
  47 vmwareplayer:///session                  (local access to VMware Player per-user instance)
  48 vmwarews:///session                      (local access to VMware Workstation per-user instance)
  49 vmwarefusion:///session                      (local access to VMware Fusion per-user instance)
  50 vmwarews+tcp://user@example.com/session  (remote access to VMware Workstation, SASl/Kerberos)
  51 vmwarews+ssh://user@example.com/session  (remote access to VMware Workstation, SSH tunnelled)
  52 </pre>
  53
  54     <h2><a id="xmlconfig">Example domain XML config</a></h2>
  55
  56 <pre>
  57 &lt;domain type='vmware'&gt;
  58   &lt;name&gt;vmware&lt;/name&gt;
  59   &lt;uuid&gt;bea92244-8885-4562-828b-3b086731c5b1&lt;/uuid&gt;
  60
  61   &lt;os&gt;
  62     &lt;type&gt;hvm&lt;/type&gt;
  63   &lt;/os&gt;
  64
  65   &lt;memory&gt;524288&lt;/memory&gt;
  66   &lt;vcpu&gt;1&lt;/vcpu&gt;
  67
  68   &lt;features&gt;
  69     &lt;pae/&gt;
  70     &lt;acpi/&gt;
  71   &lt;/features&gt;
  72
  73   &lt;devices&gt;
  74     &lt;disk type='file' device='disk'&gt;
  75       &lt;source file='/home/user/tmp/disk.vmdk'/&gt;
  76       &lt;target bus='ide' dev='hda'/&gt;
  77     &lt;/disk&gt;
  78
  79     &lt;interface type='bridge'&gt;
  80       &lt;target dev='/dev/vmnet1'/&gt;
  81       &lt;source bridge=''/&gt;
  82       &lt;mac address='00:16:3e:5d:c7:9e'/&gt;
  83     &lt;/interface&gt;
  84   &lt;/devices&gt;
  85 &lt;/domain&gt;
  86 </pre>
  87
  88     </body>
  89 </html>