# Enum - VirtualMachineVMCIDeviceProtocol(vim.vm.device.VirtualVMCIDevice.Protocol)

Since
  vSphere API 6.0

## Enum Description

Set of possible values for protocol field in FilterSpec.

Enum Constants

Name | Description
--- | ---
anyProtocol | All of the above.
datagram | VMCI and VMCI Socket datagram send op. Since VMCI Socket datagrams map ports directly to resources, there is no need to distinguish between the two.
doorbell | VMCI doorbell notification
hypervisor | VMCI hypervisor datagram send op. Direction code is not applicable to this one.
queuepair | VMCI queue pair alloc operation. Direction code not applicable to this one.
stream | VMCI Stream Socket connect op.

Show WSDL type definition
<simpleType xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:sms="urn:sms" name="VirtualMachineVMCIDeviceProtocol"> <restriction base="xsd:string"> <enumeration value="hypervisor"/> <enumeration value="doorbell"/> <enumeration value="queuepair"/> <enumeration value="datagram"/> <enumeration value="stream"/> <enumeration value="anyProtocol"/> </restriction> </simpleType>