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The Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) supports fast and efficient communication
between guest virtual machines and their host server.
VMCI Sockets 5.1
Released 10 SEP 2012, with vSphere 5.1.
The VMCI Sockets library provides a communications API similar to Berkeley UNIX sockets and Windows sockets.
You can program VMCI Sockets using C or C++.
The VMCI Sockets header file is installed with VMware Tools on guest virtual machines.
Documentation Resources:
VMCI Sockets 1.0
Released 14 SEP 2011. Previously released 25 MAY 2010 and 23 SEP 2008.
The VMCI Sockets library provides a communications API similar to Berkeley UNIX sockets and Windows sockets.
It is available with ESX/ESXi 4.0 or later and VMware Workstation 6.5 or later.
You can program VMCI Sockets using C or C++.
The VMCI Sockets header file is installed with VMware Tools on guest virtual machines,
or under the VMware directory on Windows hosts.
Documentation Resources:
Legacy VMCI API
Released 26 MAY 2008
VMCI was included as an experimental feature with VMware Tools in Workstation 6.0.x,
but deprecated with the release of VMCI Sockets. Bindings were provided for C and C++.
VMware Tools installed a README and two sample applications.
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