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Troubleshooting VMware VI Client v4 on Windows 7

Thursday, October 01, 2009 at 11:49 am by Brady Wilson

Everyone around here at Opus Interactive has been upgrading to the RTM of Windows 7 lately.  Our entire technical team has gone through the reload process and everyone has had great success making the switch from Vista to  Windows 7.  So far not one person has had issues with drivers, or software not working on our Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit installations.

 

…With one exception.  The VMware VI Client version 4 (vSphere) would not run properly.  The installation worked just fine, however when running the program the following error would popup:

 

Error parsing the server “server” “clients.xml” file. Login will continue, contact your system administrator.
 

Then right after that, one more:

 

The type initializer for ‘VirtualInfrastructure.Utils.HttpWebRequestProxy’ threw an exception.

 

 

That’s just great!  We pretty much live in vCenter managing the infrastructure and client virtual machines on our vClustr platform.  What to do?

 

Fortunately several others have run into this same issue and a quick Google search returned a solution.  I actually only looked at the first couple of results so I am sure there were many links referring to this same solution.

 

With an additional DLL file and a few other tweaks we were up a running – the VMware VI Client version 4 loaded up without incident and we again had access to our VM inventory.

 

Here are the first two links I looked at that contained a solution to this problem.

http://www.techhead.co.uk/running-vmware-vsphere-client-on-windows-7

http://serverfault.com/questions/44946/how-do-you-get-the-vmware-vsphere-client-to-work-on-windows-7-rc

 

 

I imagine this is something VMware will address in an update.

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