VMware vSphere SDKs and Tools 8.0

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Installing the VDDK Package

The VDDK is packaged as a compressed archive for Windows 64-bit and for Linux 64-bit. The VDDK packages include the following components:
  • Header files
    vixDiskLib.h
     and
    vm_basic_types.h
     in the
    include
     directory.
  • Function library
    vixDiskLib.lib
     (Windows) or
    libvixDiskLib.so
     (Linux) in the
    lib
     directory.
  • HTML reference documentation in the
    doc
     directory and sample program in
    doc/samples
    .
In the VDDK 5.5 release, VMware discontinued the Windows installer and 32-bit executables for Windows and Linux. The VDDK is available for 64-bit systems only.
To install the package on Windows:
  1. On the Download page, choose the
    .zip
     file for Windows and download it to your development system.
  2. Place the
    .zip
     file in a folder under
    Program Files
     – you can choose the name – and unpack it: 
    cd C:\Program Files\VMware\VDDK670
unzip VMware-vix-disklib-*.zip
  3. Go to the
    bin
     subfolder, locate the
    vstor2install.bat
     script, and double-click to run it. The batch script should be run in place so that the current directory for execution is the
    bin
     subfolder. By running it, you implicitly accept the VMware license terms.
    If
    vstor2
     is already installed on a backup proxy, you should first uninstall it with
    vstor2uninstall.bat
     (from its corresponding VDDK version) then run the new install script.
  4. Edit the Windows registry with
    regedit
     and check for the following key. If this key exists from a previous VDDK install, right-click to delete it. Add a registry entry with the following key:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\VMware, Inc.\VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit
    For convenience you might want to edit the Windows
    Path
     environment to include the VDDK installation folder,
    C:\Program Files\VMware\VDDK550\bin
     in the example above.
To Install the package on Linux:
  1. On the Download page, choose the binary
    tar.gz
     for 64-bit Linux.
  2. Unpack the archive with
    tar
     to create the
    vmware-vix-disklib-distrib
     subdirectory. 
    $ tar xvzf VMware-vix-disklib-*.tar.gz
  3. Change to the newly created directory to see its subdirectories: 
    $ 
    cd vmware-vix-disklib-distrib; ls
    
bin64  doc  FILES  include  lib32  lib64
    The
    bin64
     subdirectory contains a reporting program and virtual disk manager. License terms are in the
    doc/EULA
     file. The sample program is under
    doc/samples
    . Header files in the
    include
     subdirectory are for compiling your VDDK applications. Normally the
    lib64
     components are installed under
    /usr/lib
    ,
    /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64
     for instance.
  4. Install components as needed. You might want to edit your
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH
     environment to include the library installation path. Alternatively, you can add the library location to the list in
    /etc/ld.so.conf
     and run
    ldconfig
     as the superuser.

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