VMWare Infrastructure Client on Windows 7
At work I usually use VMWare Infrastructure Client to remote administration of VMWare Virtual Center. So after installing of Windows 7 I tried to install VMWare Infrastructure Client on a fresh machine. My attempt to install the last VMWare Sphere 4.0 led to the following error: “Error parsing the server “server” “clients.xml” file. Login will continue, contact your system administrator.” I ignored it and got the next one:”The type initializer for “VirtualInfrastructure.Utils.HttpWebRequestProxy” threw an exception.” After a small research and Google-Search I found a solution -to use VMWare Infrastructure Client in Development-Mode. To simplify switching into Dev-Mode I wrote a Powershell-Script, which follows in attachment to this article. To install it correct, follow the next steps:
- Install VMWare Sphere 4.0.
- Start Powershell as Administrator.
- To allow executing of PowerShell scripts, run next command(needs to be executed only one time pro machine): Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
- Extract patch archive, change to its folder and start the script: .\vmware.ps1
After you finish doing all this, try to connect VMWare Infrastructure Client to your Virtual Center.