VMware vSphere Client

What works

I'm able to start the program, and connect to a server.

What does not

Console tab does not work. 

Workarounds

What was not tested

Creating, importing, and managing a vm was not tested at this time.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

These steps are mostly borrowed from the previous instructions of an anonymous user. The only part that's different is that winetricks was unable to install .net 3.5 sp1, so that step will need to be done by hand. For this to work I need to install wine32. dpkg --add-architecture i386 aptitude update aptitude install wine32 Retrieve winetricks, and install required packages. wget http://winetricks.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/winetricks chmod +x winetricks WINEARCH=win32 ./winetricks msxml3 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010 vjrun20 Now manually download .net 3.5, and install. wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/0/f/60fc5854-3cb8-4892-b6db-bd4f42510f28/dotnetfx35.exe WINEARCH=win32 wine dotnetfx35.exe Finally install vSphere. wget http://vsphereclient.vmware.com/vsphereclient/VMware-viclient-all-6.0.0.exe WINEARCH=win32 wine VMware-viclient-all-6.0.0.exe The installer will fail with an error. Before acknowledging the error message, you'll need to make a backup copy of .wine, then restore after exiting the installer. cp -a .wine .wine-backup rm -rf .wine mv .wine-backup/ .wine Run vSphere Client. WINEARCH=win32 wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/VMware/Infrastructure/Virtual\ Infrastructure\ Client/Launcher/VpxClient.exe

Create a fresh 32-bit WINEPREFIX

  WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.vsphere" WINEARCH=win32 wine wineboot

# Install .NET 3.5 sp1 and several other components with winetricks:

   winetricks -q dotnet35sp1 msxml3 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010

Install the vSphere Windows installer exe.

  wine ~/Downloads/VMware-viclient-all-${version}.exe

  WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.vsphere" wine ~/.vsphere/drive_c/Program Files/VMware/Infrastructure/Virtual Infrastructure Client/Launcher/VpxClient.exe

The HCMON drvier error is now be fixed so the following steps are now deprecated:

Step through the installation dialogs accepting all defaults. When you see an error about installing the hcmon driver, STOP do not click OK.

Copy your ~/.vsphere directory to another location. e.g.:

  cp -R ~/.vsphere ~/Desktop/.vsphere

When the folder is copied you can now proceed:

Click OK to the hcmon driver error dialog, and click
Finish on the installer dialog. It will say that the installation
failed and will rollback the installation leaving the vsphere
installation folder empty.

Now copy the folder back:

  cp -R ~/Desktop/.vsphere ~/.vsphere