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stephenmbell
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Open-VMConsoleWindow -- Having issues

Hello Community -

I am hoping someone here can point me in the right direction.  I had to rebuild my laptop recently and I haven't been able to figure this out.  Prior to the crash - I was able to run get-vm myVirtualMachine | open-vmconsolewindow    and this would open up in my browser.

A while back I had an issue when Chrome stopped supporting NPAPI - so I had to use Set-PowerCLIConfiguration to set my VMConsoleWindowBrowser to be Firefox.  Once set - this worked fine for months.

Now that I had to reinstall everything I can't seem to get past (in Firefox) - I run the command and I see a "tap here to activate the plugin".  Once I do, I click Allow and Remember - and my browser just stops at a white screenpowercli.PNG

Any help or direction with this issue would be greatly appreciated as I would prefer to stay out of the web client or windows client as much as possible.

Thanks,

sb

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LucD
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Is the VMRC plugin installed for FireFox?

Normally that is installed during the PowerCLI installation, but if you installed FF later on, that plugin might be missing.

You can uninstall/install the VMRC sw separately.

See Opening the Virtual Machine Remote Console through PowerCLI for some more info more specifically the How does this work under the covers? section.


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stephenmbell
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Thank you for the reply.  I first re-installed the VMRC from the vcenter web client.  This didn't do the trick, so then, I uninstalled Firefox, uninstalled PowerCLI, rebooted, installed Firefox, installed PowerCLI -- still seeing the same thing. 

I installed Firefox 48.0.2. and VMware vSphere PowerCLI 6.3 Release 1 build 3737840

I am running vcenter 6.0.0 3634793 with esxi 6.0.0 4192238

I feel like I shouldn't be struggling with this as much as I am.  I have to be missing something?!?!

Any guidance is appreciated.

sb

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VMGeneral
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‌Hi

What version of Firefox are you using? It requires a 32 bit version.

stephenmbell
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Thanks for the reply.

Just checked - the .exe is located in Program Files (x86).

-Steve

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LucD
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Have you already checked out KB2091284?


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stephenmbell
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Thanks for all of the input - I was finally back in the office today and able to verify.

Reinstalling after an install of Firefox seemed to resolve my issue.

Thanks again

sb

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Groffskiii
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I had this same issue and it had persisted through an uninstall and re-install of both Firefox and PowerCLI. Granted I do not remove the settings files that firefox leaves after an uninstall.

The solution for me was simply open Firefox and opened:


Add-Ons > Plugins > VMware Remote Conse Plug-in > set to "Always Activate"

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