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