Christopher J. Umina

This has been fixed as of update 1.

If you’ve tried to install the vSphere client on Windows 7, you’ve undoubtedly come across errors like the following:

Error parsing the server "192.168.2.2" "clients.xml" file.
Login will continue, contact your system administrator.

and

The type initializer for 'VirtualInfrastructure.Utils.HttpWebRequestProxy' threw an exception.

Although Windows 7 is fully released now, nobody seems to feel like supporting it. Though, I guess Microsoft did kindof rush it out the door… Anyway, there’s a nice PowerShell script out there that allows you to fix this stupidity. After browsing the VMWare community, I came across this URL:

http://www.tinyint.com/index.php/2009/09/04/vsphere-client-on-windows-7/

I followed the instructions and now everything is working the way it should be. Maybe VMWare could just… do this for you ?

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