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<h1>VMware Workstation / Player / Fusion hypervisors driver</h1>
<p>
The libvirt VMware driver should be able to manage any Workstation,
Player, Fusion 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>.
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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>.
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<a id="project">Project Links</a>
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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)
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<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>
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