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# VZSocketDevice

The common behavior of socket devices.

```
class VZSocketDevice
```

## Overview

Don’t create or use a [`VZSocketDevice`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZSocketDevice) object directly. If your virtual machine’s configuration includes a [`VZVirtioSocketDeviceConfiguration`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZVirtioSocketDeviceConfiguration) object, the virtual machine returns a [`VZVirtioSocketDevice`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZVirtioSocketDevice) object in its [`socketDevices`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZVirtualMachine/socketDevices) property. Use that object to configure the port-based communications for your virtual machine.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

[`CVarArg`](/documentation/Swift/CVarArg)

[`CustomDebugStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomDebugStringConvertible)

[`CustomStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomStringConvertible)

[`NSObjectProtocol`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObjectProtocol)

### Inherited By

[`VZVirtioSocketDevice`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZVirtioSocketDevice)

### Inherits From

[`NSObject-swift.class`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObject-swift.class)

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