NAME¶

vmci - vmware kernel module

SYNOPSIS¶

modprobe vmci

DESCRIPTION¶

This is a Linux kernel device driver module that drives VMware's inter-VM communication device. The device itself is backed by a PCI-based virtual hardware implementation, so hotplug or udev should load it at guest boot time in any VMs using hardware version 7.

OPTIONS¶

vmci has no options.

SEE ALSO¶

vmware-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) vmhgfs(9) vmmemctl(9) vmsock(9) vmsync(9) vmxnet(9) vmxnet3(9)

HOMEPAGE¶

More information about vmci and the Open VM Tools can be found at < http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/>.

AUTHOR¶

Open 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).