vSphere Client Error parsing the server “SERVER IP” “clients.xml” file. Login will continue, contact your system administrator.
Today I have installed VMware ESXi on our Lab blades. While trying to connect to my ESXi 4 server using a vSphere client newly installed on Windows XP SP3 I had been hit by the below two errors:
Error parsing the server “server ip” “clients.xml” file. Login will continue, contact your system administrator.
and after I press OK buttom I was getting the following error:
The type initializer for “VirtualInfrastructure.Utils.HttpWebRequestProxy” threw an exception
Below are actual screen shots of the errors:
OK great!!! you might not care that I hit the same error that you did, but you might care to find out the resolution. Actually after searching the web about the problem I had hit the following VMware forum post that had the answer on the fifth page of it http://communities.vmware.com/thread/211081




