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Virtual Disk Development Kit

The Virtual Disk Development Kit is a collection of C libraries, code samples, utilities, and documentation to help you create or access VMware virtual disk storage. The kit includes:

• The Virtual Disk library, a set of C function calls to manipulate virtual disk (VMDK) files.
• C++ code samples that you can build with either Visual Studio or the GNU C compiler.
• Virtual Disk Manager utility to manipulate offline VMDK files on Windows or Linux (clone, create, relocate, rename, grow, shrink, or defragment).
• DiskMount utility to access files and file systems in virtual disks on Windows or Linux.
• Documentation about the Virtual Disk library and the command-line utilities.

Virtual Disk Development Kit 1.0.1

Released 23-June-2008

Resources:

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Release Notes
• Download Software
• Virtual Disk API Programming Guide[PDF]
• Virtual Disk Manager User's Guide[PDF]
• VMware DiskMount User's Guide[PDF]
• VMware Community for the Virtual Disk Development Kit

Last updated 24-June-2008 5:00 pm