VMWARE-XFERLOGS(1)

📦 version 13.0.10, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ VMWARE-XFERLOGS(1) ✨

Open VM Tools manual, bestie 🎀 Let's get into it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

vmware-xferlogs - dump vm-support output to vmx logfile 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

vmware-xferlogs OPTIONS FILE

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

okay so vmware-xferlogs is a simple console app and literally any user can run it 🙈 It's based on rpctool and it dumps the vm-support output into the vmx log file, base64 encoded ✨ It can dump any file you pass on the commandline into the vmx log. It also does the decoding part, so it can read the vmware.log file, decode it, and write the encoded files into the directory you invoked it from 🧚 the way that's so useful ngl 😭

Here's what a transfer looks like in the vmx log file 👀

    Aug 24 18:48:09: vcpu-0| Guest: >Logfile Begins :
/root/install.log: ver - 1      Aug 24 18:48:09: vcpu-0| Guest:
>SW5zdGFsbGluZyA0NDEgcGFja2FnZXMKCkluc3RhbGxpbmcgZ2xpYmMtY29tbW9uLTIuMi41LTM0
    Aug 24 18:48:09: vcpu-0| Guest:
>LgpJbnN0YWxsaW5nIGh3ZGF0YS0wLjE0LTEuCkluc3RhbGxpbmcgaW5kZXhodG1sLTcuMy0zLgpJ
    Aug 24 18:48:09: vcpu-0| Guest:
>bnN0YWxsaW5nIG1haWxjYXAtMi4xLjktMi4KSW5zdGFsbGluZyBtYW4tcGFnZXMtMS40OC0yLgpJ
    ....       ....       Aug 24 18:48:10: vcpu-0| Guest: >Mi4K
    Aug 24 18:48:10: vcpu-0| Guest: >Logfile Ends

🍓 OPTIONS 🍓

  • enc: one of the two modes 💜 The page doesn't spell out more about this one, so I'm not gonna guess 🙈
  • dec: the other mode 💜 Same deal, no extra details in the original, so no cap I won't invent any 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

🌈 HOMEPAGE 🌈

More info about vmware-xferlogs and the Open VM Tools is at http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ ✨ go check it out, it's giving research energy 📚

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Open VM Tools were written by VMware, Inc. http://www.vmware.com/ 🫶

This manual page was put together from homepage materials by Daniel Baumann mail@daniel-baumann.ch, for the Debian project 🎀 (but anyone else can use it too, it's giving sharing is caring 🌸)

Source and version 2010.03.20-243334, dated 2010-04-08, love you bestie 💖🧚✨

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