I tried both VMware-vix-1.0.3 and VMware-vix-1.1.0 on a 32bit machine. I am still getting segfault half way through the "finditems" loop. strace makes it look like it was on a poll on the temporarily file created. is this a known issue or do you suspect it has to do with my environment?

There are a few cases where the documentation was not accurate when it included example code. also the documentation for VMware::Vix::Simple has a typo, one line says "use VMware::Vix::Simple" and the other says "use VMWare::Vix::Simple".