vmblock - vmware kernel module
modprobe vmblock
This is a kernel filesystem module. Ideally, it should be loaded before any of
the Tools userlevel components are allowed to start, though vmblock itself has
no dependencies. When loaded, vmblock will establish itself in
/proc/fs/vmblock and create two nodes therein, dev and mountPoint. Before
mounting a vmblock filesystem, ensure that /tmp/VMwareDnD exists as a
directory with permissions 1777, otherwise host to guest drag n' drop
operations won't work.
To mount, issue:
mount -t vmblock none /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint
Once mounted,
vmware-user(1) can begin to make use of vmblock to assist
with DnD operations. Note that while
vmware-user(1) is running, it'll
keep an open file descriptor on /proc/fs/vmblock/dev, and thus all
vmware-user(1) instances must be killed to unmount and unload vmblock.
vmblock has no options.
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)
vmci(9)
vmhgfs(9)
vmmemctl(9)
vmsock(9)
vmsync(9)
vmxnet(9)
vmxnet3(9)
More information about vmblock and the Open VM Tools can be found at <
http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/>.
Open VM Tools were written by VMware, Inc. <
http://www.vmware.com/>.
This manual page was put together from homepage materials by Daniel Baumann <
[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by
others).