NAME

zmq_vmci - 0MQ transport over virtual machine communicatios interface (VMCI) sockets

SYNOPSIS

The VMCI transport passes messages between VMware virtual machines running on the same host, between virtual machine and the host and within virtual machines (inter-process transport like ipc).

Note
 Communication between a virtual machine and the host is not supported on Mac OS X 10.9 and above.

ADDRESSING

A 0MQ endpoint is a string consisting of a 'transport'`://` followed by an 'address'. The 'transport' specifies the underlying protocol to use. The 'address' specifies the transport-specific address to connect to.

For the VMCI transport, the transport is vmci, and the meaning of the 'address' part is defined below.

Binding a socket

When binding a 'socket' to a local address using zmq_bind() with the 'vmci' transport, the 'endpoint' shall be interpreted as an 'interface' followed by a colon and the TCP port number to use.

An 'interface' may be specified by either of the following:

  • The wild-card *, meaning all available interfaces.

  • An integer returned by VMCISock_GetLocalCID or @ (ZeroMQ will call VMCISock_GetLocalCID internally).

The port may be specified by:

  • A numeric value, usually above 1024 on POSIX systems.

  • The wild-card *, meaning a system-assigned ephemeral port.

Unbinding wild-card address from a socket

When wild-card * 'endpoint' was used in zmq_bind(), the caller should use real 'endpoint' obtained from the ZMQ_LAST_ENDPOINT socket option to unbind this 'endpoint' from a socket using zmq_unbind().

Connecting a socket

When connecting a socket to a peer address using zmq_connect() with the 'vmci' transport, the 'endpoint' shall be interpreted as a 'peer address' followed by a colon and the port number to use.

A 'peer address' must be a CID of the peer.

EXAMPLES

Assigning a local address to a socket
//  VMCI port 5555 on all available interfaces
rc = zmq_bind(socket, "vmci://*:5555");
assert (rc == 0);
//  VMCI port 5555 on the local loop-back interface on all platforms
cid = VMCISock_GetLocalCID();
sprintf(endpoint, "vmci://%d:5555", cid);
rc = zmq_bind(socket, endpoint);
assert (rc == 0);
Connecting a socket
//  Connecting using a CID
sprintf(endpoint, "vmci://%d:5555", cid);
rc = zmq_connect(socket, endpoint);
assert (rc == 0);

SEE ALSO

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