problem running vmcreate.pl

[listener]

I am having a problem running the vmcreate.pl script. The url is my Virtual Center Server. I am running the script from my desktop that has Virtual Center and the perl toolkit on it. Is there something else I was suppose to install? Thanks.

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VI Perl Toolkit\Perl\apps\vm>perl vmcreate.pl --u

rl https://10.60.17.122:443/sdk/webService -username admin -password password --

filename vm.xml --schema vmcreate.xsd

Error connecting to server at 'https://10.60.17.122:443/sdk/webService':

SOAP request error:

SoapClient::request('SoapClient=HASH(0x390da44)', 'RetrieveServiceConten

t', '&lt;_this type="ServiceInstance"&gt;ServiceInstance<!_this>\x') called at C:/P

rogram Files/VMware/VMware VI Perl Toolkit/Perl/lib/VMware/VIM2Stub.pm line 2672

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[jnhall]

This is the type of message you would see if your server was configured for http rather than https access, or if you misspelled 'sdk'. Other problems like wrong username/password, wrong IP, or wrong port, will produce different errors.

[listener]

I get the same error if I use http without the 443 too.

Are you saying that if I configure the virtual center server for https access I should be ok?

thanks

[jnhall]

If your server is set up for https, and you use the URL in your original post, it should work. If it doesn't, I'll make some more suggestions.