Remote Console ActiveX HowTo?

[SK9985]

I'm sorry if I'm in the wrong forum and I'm sorry if this may be a stupid question. I'm more of a Hyper-V guy and I'm just beginning to look into VMware.

I've installed ESXi for testing and the vSphere client application. I managed to create a VM and I'm able to connect to the console of the VM from the client application.

I'm wondering how I can host the remote console ActiveX control and connect to a VM instance (just like I would using the vSphere client). I've found the AxVMwareEmbeddedRemoteConsole component but I have no idea what I need to just simply connect to a console. Is there a documentation or sample App?

I appreciate any help on this?

cheers,
Stefan

[TheNetStriker34]

Did you manage to create a connection using AxVMwareEmbeddedRemoteConsole? I'am also trying to use this ActiveX component. It seams that a cloneTicket is required for the connection to work, but I couldn't get one so far. Every time when I call the AcquireCloneTicket method on the sdk webservice I get an "RestrictedVersionFault" from the server. I've managed to capture the https packets from Vmware Infrastructure-Client and the client is successfully calling this method to get a ticket, but I don't know why this isn't working for me. Here is my code: (.Net)

        private void connect()

        {

            System.Net.ServicePointManager.CertificatePolicy = new AppUtil.CertPolicy();

            Vim25Api.VimService service = new Vim25Api.VimService();

            service.Url = "https://172.16.2.13/sdk";

            service.Timeout = 600000;

            service.CookieContainer = new System.Net.CookieContainer();

            Vim25Api.ManagedObjectReference _svcRef = new Vim25Api.ManagedObjectReference();

            _svcRef.type = "ServiceInstance";

            _svcRef.Value = "ServiceInstance";

            Vim25Api.ServiceContent _sic = service.RetrieveServiceContent(_svcRef);

            Vim25Api.UserSession _session = service.Login(_sic.sessionManager, "root", "pw", "de-DE");

            Vim25Api.ManagedObjectReference _virRef = service.FindByIp(_sic.searchIndex, null, "172.16.128.10", true);

            if (_virRef == null)

                throw new Exception("Not found");

            String cloneTicket = service.AcquireCloneTicket(_sic.sessionManager);

          

            vmware.connect("172.16.2.13:443", "", true, cloneTicket, "", "", "264", "", "");

        }

Edit: I just found out that the http header User-Agent has to be "VMware VI Client/4.0.0" to get a cloneTicket, but the ActiveX still doesn't work I get an E_FAIL error every time I call the connect method.