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v2v: vddk: Further rework documentation.
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Thanks for suggestions from Ming Xie.
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rwmjones committed Nov 7, 2017
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=item 2.

VDDK E<ge> 6.5 is required.

=item 3.

You must also compile nbdkit, enabling the VDDK plugin. At least
nbdkit E<ge> 1.1.16 is required, but it is usually best to compile
from the git tree.
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=item 3.
Compile nbdkit as described in the sources (see link above).

You do B<not> need to run C<make install>. You can run nbdkit from
its source directory. Set C<$PATH> to point to the nbdkit top build
directory (that is, the directory containing a shell script called
F<nbdkit>), eg:
You do B<not> need to run C<make install> because you can run nbdkit
from its source directory. The source directory has a shell script
called F<nbdkit> which runs the locally built copy of nbdkit and its
plugins. So set C<$PATH> to point to the nbdkit top build directory
(that is, the directory containing the shell script called F<nbdkit>),
eg:

export PATH=/path/to/nbdkit-1.1.x:$PATH

=item 4.

You must find the SSL "thumbprint" of your VMware server. How to do
this is explained in L<nbdkit-vddk-plugin(1)>, also available at the
link given in item 2 above.
link above.

=item 5.

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