vmware-user-suid-wrapper - wrapper programm for
vmware-user(1)
vmware-user-suid-wrapper
Operations on the
vmblock(9) filesystem are considered privileged, and as
such may only be issued on a file descriptor acquired by root. This is
accomplished by vmware-user-suid-wrapper, a small setuid wrapper whose only
purpose is to acquire a filesystem file descriptor, drop superuser privileges,
and then execute
vmware-user(1). In particular, prepare the system for
vmware-user means that it unmounts the vmblock file system, unloads the
vmblock module, then reloads the module, mounts the file system, and opens a
file descriptor that vmware-user can use to add and remove blocks.
vmware-user-suid-wrapper 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)
vmblock(9)
vmci(9)
vmhgfs(9)
vmmemctl(9)
vmsock(9)
vmsync(9)
vmxnet(9)
vmxnet3(9)
More information about vmware-user-suid-wrapper 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).