Re: vshpere client installer

2011-02-07 Thread Peter da Silva
There is no VSphere client. There's a bunch of VSphere clients that get run depending on what VMware server you connect to, so the VSphere client installer is really a meta-installer wrapped around all the separate individual installers included with the version you downloaded. Even if there's

Re: vshpere client installer

2011-02-07 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 06:35:27AM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: There is no VSphere client. There's a bunch of VSphere clients that get run depending on what VMware server you connect to, so the VSphere client installer is really a meta-installer wrapped around all the separate

Turning applications into browser plug-ins. (was Re: vshpere client installer)

2011-02-07 Thread Peter da Silva
On 2011-02-07, at 06:39, Gert Doering wrote: (But this is still better than the vmware server 2.0 plug-in for firefox under linux... which ships half a unix OS in bundled libraries...) The idea that it's somehow easier to install an application by turning it into a browser plug-in or

vshpere client installer

2011-02-03 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, I think there is a special place in hell for people that write not only dysfunctional windows software, but even worse, dysfunctional windows software *installers*. My latest favourite: vmware infrastructure client, which is what you need to remotely manage ESX[0] stuff (no unix client, no