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While I mostly use a PC at work and a Mac at home, occasionally I use my “other” laptop. That special one who only gets powered on a couple of times a month to do random and various tasks and as the title would suggest, it’s running Windows 7.

So, I have an ESXi 4.0 server here at home that runs a Linux server, a windows 2003 server and other various guest OS flavors. As of ESX 4.0, the client was renamed and updated to vSphere Client instead of vMWare Infrastructure Client. That client piece is the piece that lets you modify your ESX host and all of its virtual machines, datastores, network, etc…

As luck would have it…the client doesn’t work under Windows 7. Blast! You get this error:
Error parsing the server “SERVER IP” “clients.xml” file.

With Google and a little patience, I got it working again – for the first time.

Here’s a little rundown of how to get VMWare’s latest client product to work under Windows 7:
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