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                "content": "vmware-checkvm(1)\nvmware-toolbox(1)\nvmware-toolbox-cmd(1)\nvmware-user(1)\nvmware-xferlogs(1)\nlibguestlib(3)\nlibvmtools(3)\nvmware-guestd(8)\nvmware-user-suid-wrapper(1)\nvmblock(9)\nvmci(9)\nvmmemctl(9)\nvmsock(9)\nvmsync(9)\nvmxnet3(9)\n\n",
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                "content": "More    information    about   vmxnet   and   the   Open   VM   Tools   can   be   found   at\n<http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/>.\n\n",
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                "content": "Open VM Tools were written by VMware, Inc. <http://www.vmware.com/>.\n\nThis manual page was put together from homepage materials by Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-bau‐\nmann.ch>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).\n\n\n\n2010.03.20-243334                            2010-04-08                                    VMXNET(9)",
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