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Running VMware Infrastructure Client (VIC) on Windows 7.

by Simon Seagrave 1 Comment

I’ve just installed Microsoft Windows 7 onto one of my HP ML110’s. The install process couldn’t have been smoother with the entire installation only taking around 30 minutes (approx) and the OS detecting the SATA based hard disk without the need for any additional drivers (remember the good ole Windows XP days).

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Although I hadn’t heard anything to suggest the contrary I was keen to see whether the VMware Infrastructure Client (VIC) would run under Windows 7 without any issues. 

The install of VMware Infrastructure Client completed without error and  I successfully tested it’s basic stability by adding, renaming and deleting VMs along with changing VM configuration parameters and a handful of other settings.  The only thing I haven’t tested is it’s stability when running it over time.  I will run it solidly for a day or so and will report back with any errors or issues. 

All of this shouldn’t really come as a surprise as from what I gather Windows 7 does share much of the underlying core code that can be found in Windows Vista.

In all this has ended up being a rather unspectacular  posting though I thought it may help answer the question that others may have been wondering.  🙂

Technorati Tags: Microsoft,Windows 7,VMware Infrastructure Client,VIC

Why not take a look at my other related posts?:

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  4. Differences between the various Windows Server 2003 Versions

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About Simon Seagrave

Simon is a UK based Virtualization, Cloud & IT Technology Evangelist working as a Senior Technology Consultant and vSpecialist for EMC. He loves working in the ever changing IT industry & spends most of his time working with Virtualization, Cloud & other Enterprise IT based technologies, in particular VMware, EMC and HP products.

As well as on this site, you can find him on Twitter and Google+

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  1. Xavier says

    7 February 2010 at 10:34 pm

    I have noticed a problem that only happens when I am using a Windows 7 machine to run VIC, when i attempt to view a machine’s console I get a black console window with a yellow notice saying “Host address lookup for server blade9.epicentre.internal failed: No such host is known”

    No idea as to how to fix it, and the problem only occurs on Win7 machines.

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