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VixMntapi internals - Linux 24 Use FUSE – File system in user space FUSE Kernel module + User land component Kernel module preinstalled on many Linux distro’s – may not be enabled modprobe fuse User land component (libfuse.so) You can get it from an rpm like http://www.atrpms.net/dist/el5/fuse/ FUSE is used to present a flat file representation of the <strong>Disk</strong> You can do this trivially if the disk is flat Volumes are mounted using loop back device and the mount command After mounting Use the mount point like any other volume mount point
References and Links 25 VDDK main landing page http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/vddk http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vddk/ <strong>VMware</strong> SDK main landing page http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/sdk_pubs.html VI SDK http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/managementapi VDDK blog http://blogs.vmware.com/vddk/ Useful Windows resource Windows Internals series http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/books/12069.aspx
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