I asked this over in the Workstation forum and realized it may be better answered here...
I have a stand alone client that I wrote that accesses a workstation and performs various actions on the VM (start/stop, copy file, execute program) using the VIX implementation. Recently, I was asked to transition the VIX implementation over to a vSphere 6.5 SDK implementation. I'm able to handle the power operations just fine, but I can't get any of the guest operations to work using the vSphere Client SDK 6.5. All of the examples I've found say to get the guestOperationsManager managed object reference. However, when I attempt to do that, it comes back null and there isn't a way to create one that I've found.
Are there things missing in Workstation that exist in vSphere? Is what they are asking for even possible?