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Windows 7 support for this tool?

I couldn't find a discussion for this. It doesn't appear the Update 1 vSphere versions of either the Power CLI or the vSphere CLI are supported in WIndows 7 (at least according to the release notes).

Is anyone using these under Windows 7 now?

Were there any precautions or system modifications you made?

Any ideas on when these tools will be supported on Windows 7?

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Most of PowerCLI is purely managed .NET code, I would expect the majority of our cmdlets to work fine on W7. This is not a guarantee, just my guess.

The exception is we have some cmdlets that use the VIX library. This is what gives us various guest operations. This includes Invoke-VMScript, Copy-VMGuestFile, etc. These things may very well not work on W7. When we have official support for W7 part of it will be to ensure that this stuff is working.

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I am currently running PowerCLI 4 Update 1 in Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit without issue. I don't recall having to perform any additional steps for this to work.

Josh Atwell

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We don't claim official support for W7 yet. We have reports that it works. If you're experiencing any trouble on Windows 7 the fail-safe is to launch an ordinary PowerShell window and add PowerCLI by running

Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

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OK. Thanks. Would you suspect if ther were issues they would be related to actually runnibng it (as opposed to being issues that could negatively affect the virtual environment)?

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Most of PowerCLI is purely managed .NET code, I would expect the majority of our cmdlets to work fine on W7. This is not a guarantee, just my guess.

The exception is we have some cmdlets that use the VIX library. This is what gives us various guest operations. This includes Invoke-VMScript, Copy-VMGuestFile, etc. These things may very well not work on W7. When we have official support for W7 part of it will be to ensure that this stuff is working.

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Carter Shanklin

Read the PowerCLI Blog
[Follow me on Twitter|http://twitter.com/cshanklin]

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OK. Sounds good. Thanks for the information.

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