Query: vmsock
OS: debian
Section: 9
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VMSOCK(9) Open VM Tools VMSOCK(9)NAMEvmsock - vmware kernel moduleSYNOPSISmodprobe vmsockDESCRIPTIONThis is a Linux kernel device driver module that provides datagram and stream socket interfaces to the underlying VMCI device. The module implements a Linux socket family and one of the files in the module, vmci_sockets.h, provides the various constants and functions necessary to create and, in the case of streams, connect sockets. When the module is loaded, /dev/vsock will be created with restricted permissions. Access to /dev/vsock is required to use VMCI sockets, so it's recommended that permissions be relaxed via a udev policy file. For reference, the VMware Tools init script changes the permissions of /dev/vsock to 666. Normally, issuing a socket(2) system call will automatically load the kernel module providing that socket family, but as the vsock module is out-of-tree, there is no in-tree socket family reservation for VMCI sockets. Before sockets are created, userspace applications must call VMCISock_GetAFValue (defined in vmci_sockets.h) which will instruct the vsock module to dynamically acquire a socket family reserva- tion from the kernel. This function is implemented via ioctl(2) into the vsock module, so the vsock module must be manually loaded by the user (perhaps using /etc/modules). The vmci_sockets.h header should be installed in a system-wide location. We recommend /usr/include/vmci. The vsock module depends on symbols from the vmci module, and so the vmci module must be loaded first.OPTIONSvmsock has no options.SEE ALSOvmware-checkvm(1) vmware-hgfsclient(1) vmware-toolbox(1) vmware-toolbox-cmd(1) vmware-user(1) vmware-xferlogs(1) libguestlib(3) libvmtools(3) vmware-guestd(8) vmware-hgfsmounter(8) vmware-user-suid-wrapper(8) vmblock(9) vmci(9) vmhgfs(9) vmmemctl(9) vmsock(9) vmxnet(9) vmxnet3(9)HOMEPAGEMore information about vmsock and the Open VM Tools can be found at <http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/>.AUTHOROpen VM Tools were written by VMware, Inc. <http://www.vmware.com/>. This manual page was put together from homepage materials by Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 2010.03.20-243334 2010-04-08 VMSOCK(9)
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