VMware Guest SDK

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Read-only APIs for monitoring various virtual machine statistics, such as memory usage, speed and CPU shares, elapsed time since last virtual machine power-on or reset, and ESX Server host system CPU time scheduled for specific virtual machine CPUs. Management agents or other software running in the guest operating system on the virtual machine can use this data to react to changes at the application layer.

• Available on Windows and Linux guests with VMware Tools installed.
• C and Java (Java support via wrapper classes) programming languages supported.

VMware Guest SDK 3.5

Released 10-December-2007

Resources:

• Programming Guide [PDF]
• Discussion Forum

VMware Guest SDK 3.0.1

Released 2-October-2006

Resources:

• Programming Guide [PDF]
• Discussion Forum

Last updated 8-Dec-2007 2:30 pm