VIC on Vista X64 problem

[Kltaylor]

Anyone have a problem loading the VI Client on Windows Vista 64 bit edition.

Every time we try it crashes the install. Problem is we are now going to Vista in my office and when we do I do not want to have a bunch of problems. I'm hoping to get this working before they start the role out of Vista.

Have not tried putting the VIC on Vista 32 bit version, so it may be a problem with loading on Vista.

[Richard_Claus]

It is my understanding that VIC 2.5 is not supported on Vista x64..i myself am still running VIC 2.0.2 and have no issues running on my vista x64 box.

[dmaster]

Hello Kltaylor,

You can run the VI-client on a Vista X64 but you have to modify the .msi package with orca msi editor.

see this dutch website for some screenshots and weblinks for this problem :

see below my summery

- start the install of th VI-client and don't click on OK when the warning message appears

- search for the extracted VMware Infrastructure CLient 2.5.msi

- open this file with orca msi editor

- open table InstallExecuteSequence and look for the line LaunchConditions. remove this line

- open table InstallUISequence and look for the line LaunchConditions. remove this line also.

- save the newVMware Infrastructure CLient 2.5.msi file

- install the VI-client on Vista x64 : msiexec /i "VMware Infrastructure CLient 2.5.msi"

[BeardyWalrus]

Virtual Infrastructure client works fine on Vista x64 if you install Virtual Center 2.5 Update 1. There is a small chance you have to copy some dll's around to get some functionality to work, described here.

http://communities.vmware.com/message/931121#931121

You shouldn't need to do the dll copies if you dont see the error message.

[Kltaylor]

I thought I had update 1 running, but did not, When I reinstalled with update 1 it worked.

Thanks