Installing VMware vSphere Client 4.x on Windows 8
When installing VMWare vSphere Client 4.1 to manage VMWare ESX, you observe the following error:
“This product can only be installed on Windows XP SP2 and above.”
Although Windows 8 is obviously above XP SP2, it would seem that Windows 8 wasn’t about when vSphere Client 4.1 or 5.0 was released. In order to work around this you simply need to do the following:
- Extract the content from the installation file to a folder of your choice. Using 7zip, you can right click the executable file, go to7Zip, and choose Extract to folder name.
- Go to the extracted folder, bin sub-folder, right click VMware-viclient.exe and choose Properties. Go to **Compatibility **tab, and check the option “Run this program in compatibility mode for” and pick Windows 7 from the list:
Window2s 7 Compatibility Mode
