vmware-user-suid-wrapper (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).