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VMCI Sockets Programming Guide

10 VMware, Inc.

RabbitMQsoftwareisanopen‐sourcemessagebroker(ormessage‐orientedmiddleware)thatimplementsthe

AMQPstandard.SpringSourcecurrentlydevelopsandsupportsRabbitMQ.

Network Storage with Datagram VMCI Sockets

Figure 1‐2showsanexampleofaVMwarehostactingastheNFSserverforthehomedirectoriesofitsthree

clients:aWindowsguestandtwoLinuxguests.NFSusesdatagramsocketsforfileI/O.TheNFScodeonthe

VMwarehostmustbeslightlymodifiedtouseVMCIsocketsinste

adofUDPdatagrams.

VMwaredoesnotprovidemodifiedversionsofthethird‐partyapplicationsshowninthesediagrams.

However,anopensourceversionofNFSisavailable.

Figure 1-2. VMware Host with Datagram VMCI Sockets for NFS in Guests

/home

Linux

VMCI socket

VMCI driver

/home

Linux

host

VMCI socket

VMCI driver

VMCI virtual device

NFS modified for VMCI sockets

H:\Home

Windows

vsocklib.dll

VMCI socket

VMCI driver

disk disk