VMware vSphere Client

If you're having trouble with the installations for the various dotnets, I had to use the latest version here: winetricks.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/winetricks and not the current one that Ubuntu has which is from July

Managed to download & install, managed to run, when trying to connect I get an error message: "vSphere Client could not conect to "x.x.x.x"
The server could not interpret the communication from the client"

in the terminal i get this:

"fixme:ras:RasEnumConnectionsW RAS support is not implemented! Configure program
to use LAN connection/winsock instead!
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl -> SIO_ADDRESS_LIST_CHANGE request: stub
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl -> SIO_ADDRESS_LIST_CHANGE request: stub
fixme:ras:RasConnectionNotificationW (0xffffffff,0x274,0x00000003),stub!
err:rpc:I_RpcReceive we got fault packet with status 0x80040155
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl -> SIO_ADDRESS_LIST_CHANGE request: stub
p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib32/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: /usr/lib32/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
fixme:crypt:CertAddCertificateLinkToStore (0x1cdd48, 0x1cdbc0, 00000004, (nil)): semi-stub
fixme:crypt:CRYPT_RegControl CERT_STORE_CTRL_AUTO_RESYNC: stub
err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from
multi-threaded to apartment threaded
fixme:crypt:CRYPT_RegControl CERT_STOR"

I've installed everything as described above and got it working so far on my Ubuntu 12.04 x64 machine.

Everything seems to work fine, except for the console. It remains dark even though it says "vmrc console has successfully reconnected vmware".

Any ideas?

I tried following the instructions on an amd64 system and got nowhere. Can you please list the steps you took to get vSphere Client installed and running on an amd64 system? Please mention version numbers.
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Thomas Hood

I downloaded the most recent winetricks first and then installed .net 2.0, 2.0 SP1, 3.0, ie6:

winetricks dotnet20
winetricks dotnet20sp1
winetricks dotnet30
winetricks ie6
winetricks winxp

Next I got the vsphere 4.1 package (build 799345) from my esxi server and installed it by using wine 1.4.1. Installation went fine without any errors.

First start of vSphere failed while I tried to connect to the server. I did some debugging and found following error:

couldn't load module: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so

After some troubleshooting I installed libgnutls-dev and upgraded my wine to 1.5.15 using the wine repository.

That's it. Now I can connect to my server and everything works except for the console. This is annoying but not a show stopper as there is a workaround. You can use the native linux vmware-vmrc from the vmware-player or vmware-server instead.

Thanks very much for the help.

Running 64-bit Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop on a ThinkPad X220 I installed wine1.5 and winetricks. I ran "winetricks dotnet20" and it printed the following.

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Please download dotnetfx.exe from download.cnet.com/Microsoft-NET-Framework-Redistributable-Package-x86/3000-10250_4-10726028.html, place it in /home//.cache/winetricks/dotnet20, then re-run this script.
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The provided URL addresses a download site for the x86 version of .Net, dotnetfx.exe. I downloaded this and put it in /home//.cache/winetricks/dotnet20 and ran "winetricks dotnet20" again. Up popped a dialog box saying "This product is not supported on a 64-bit operating system. Setup will now exit."

What did you do differently?

Please check, if the following package is installed:

ii wine1.5-i386:i386 1.5.15-0ubuntu1 Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (32-bit support)

Maybe this why you can't install dotnet.

Yes, wine1.5-i386:i386 is installed here.

Did you also download what was described as the "x86" version of the .NET runtime, with file name 'dotnetfx.exe'?
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Thomas

$ dpkg -l wine\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Arch Description
+++-===========================================-====================================================================================
un wine (no description available)
un wine-amd64 (no description available)
un wine-gecko (no description available)
ii wine-gecko1.7:amd64 1.7-0ubuntu1~ppa1~preci amd64 Microsoft Windows compatibility layer (embedded web browser)
ii wine-gecko1.7:i386 1.7-0ubuntu1~ppa1~preci i386 Microsoft Windows compatibility layer (embedded web browser)
un wine-i386 (no description available)
un wine-mono (no description available)
ii wine-mono0.0.4 0.0.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1 all Microsoft Windows compatibility layer (.NET compatibility)
un wine1.0 (no description available)
un wine1.2 (no description available)
un wine1.2-gecko (no description available)
un wine1.3 (no description available)
un wine1.3-gecko (no description available)
un wine1.4 (no description available)
un wine1.4-amd64 (no description available)
un wine1.4-i386 (no description available)
ii wine1.5 1.5.15-0ubuntu1 amd64 Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (Binary Emulator and Library)
ii wine1.5-amd64 1.5.15-0ubuntu1 amd64 Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (64-bit support)
ii wine1.5-i386 1.5.15-0ubuntu1 i386 Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (32-bit support)
ii winetricks 0.0+20120912 amd64 Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (winetricks)
ii winexe 1.00-0openpcf2~oneiric amd64 Remote Windows command executor

By starting with

WINEARCH=win32 winecfg

I was able to follow the given procedure and successfully install vSphere Client 4.1.

And finally after several attempts ending in various different error conditions I was able to start vSphere Client, connect and use it. I can confirm what was reported above, that it mostly works. Thanks again for your help.

To run vSphere Client 4.1 when installed you will also need to install dotnet30 using winetricks