Vix COM and deployment

[beckhamk]

I would like to know what files are required for me to install to use the vix. I do not want to have to run the vix installer for deployments, so i am trying to determine what dlls for VixCOM.dll do i need if our application is only hitting VC2.5 /vCenter 4.0.

Thanks in advance.

[dblock]

I would recommend bootstrapping the VMWare installer rather than going this route. VixCOM is a COM object, so it requires registration and there's one per-machine. You will easily succeed registering a VixCOM.dll "manually" on a clean install, but you will likely break any existing VixCOM installation or fail yours.

[beckhamk]

Bootstapping (running the vmware sdk installer) is not an option for us. We understand how the COM stuff works. We just needed to know what other dlls are required for the vix sdk to work. We tried simply registering the vixcom.dll but it needed some other dlls, which is why we are trying to determine that. We would have though everything was built into the vixcom.dll but i am not so sure.