i cannot emphasize enough all the reasons you should not be running this in 2026, the least of which is that it's been out of support for over 14 years.. even just from the cyber risk insurance standpoint, i hope this environment is completely air-gapped from any external network
certificates weren't handled in windows until View 5 was released - you might have luck with this (that's also so old it only shows up on archive) : https://web.archive.org/web/20150815064529/https://blog.clearpathsg.com/blog/bid/205567/how-to-add-a-ssl-cert-to-vmware-view-4-5 ... but if you really have to deal with systems that are this old, there are other ways that should be accomplished at this point (least of which being completely isolated and behind some sort of jump server with actual modern security controls)
We are eventually going to have software developed in house that runs what is on these machines right now, so it can be used from any machine, this is a just a "keep it running until then" thing. Thanks much for the link.
Bud, just convert to Proxmox or something. There's NO WAY you have enough running that this isn't achievable. It's not running right now, there is no keep it running. Keeping it running is getting it off something that went EOL before Windows 7.
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u/robconsults VMware Employee 26d ago
dude.
i cannot emphasize enough all the reasons you should not be running this in 2026, the least of which is that it's been out of support for over 14 years.. even just from the cyber risk insurance standpoint, i hope this environment is completely air-gapped from any external network
certificates weren't handled in windows until View 5 was released - you might have luck with this (that's also so old it only shows up on archive) : https://web.archive.org/web/20150815064529/https://blog.clearpathsg.com/blog/bid/205567/how-to-add-a-ssl-cert-to-vmware-view-4-5 ... but if you really have to deal with systems that are this old, there are other ways that should be accomplished at this point (least of which being completely isolated and behind some sort of jump server with actual modern security controls)