Hi Guys,
we've been waiting for the 6.0 RC version to come. Now its here horrah!! (That's what we thought...). We read that you can connect a WebClient 6.0 to a 5.50 vCenter - so we thought were ready to start... But after 2 days of frustration - we have to ask .. Please help!
We are doing our plugin development on a VM. Our vCenter Server(s) are location on other machines.
I read the vSphere WebClient SDK Setup, ->To install VWC in your development machine
The second option was to use the installer to install the WebClient - this is how we have done it for previous versions:
So I mounted the ISO and searched for a "VMware-WebClient.exe" - there is none found and the directory structure on the .iso is different than before. I looked under
vCenter-Server/Packages and found VMware-WebClient.msi, but starting this doesn't work either.
I read that you can start the real installation with autorun.exe - and choose the WebClient installation only.
So I added a 2.nd processor to my VM, and set my Memory to 8176MB - and started the installation. I could choose to install a vCenter only,
but there is no option to install the WebClient only. The installation wanted to install a vCenter Server on my VM.
Next try was to unzip the serenity-client and define that as my Virgo Runtime - I edited the client.properties with the lookup url and thumbprint.
Then I started the Server - and found many errors in the Virgo.log
One of the first ones were:
... com.vmware.vise.vim.cm.impl.AfdCMSource Error when talking to afd client java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError: null
.......
Cannot resolve reference to bean "ssoServiceImpl" while setting constructor argument; nested ........... The URL of the VMware Component Manager cannot be empty.
....
I thought that all might be caused, due to my current installed WebClient 5.5 U2 - so I unistalled that. and restarted the Virgo Server.
This did not help either.
So at least for me, both of the options mentioned in the SDK Setup won't work. At least they don't work as described. I'm attaching the Virgo log for
more Information. 2 of my collegues have had similar experiences.
Please help! we are really exited to get started.