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I've been a bit hasty with the above - this is probably due to us using vsphere 5. I'll close this, and you can add vSphere 5.0.0 to your incompatible list!

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@jonc650 I was able to reproduce this issue, fix is in #142 - can you give it a try? Thanks.

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I've just updated to the latest, but I still see the same issue.

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I should have looked closer at your stack trace.. looks like you are using 32-bit go and we were bitten by this issue: https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=6404

I did reproduce with 32-bit go. Can you try updating again to include #143 ?

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That seems to have fixed this issue - Thanks. I'm not yet getting a valid response back from 'about', but that's more likely to be something I'm not doing right or a problem due to versions than an issue!

govc about
Error: expected element type but have

Thanks

Jon

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Hi @jonc650, I think a version incompatibility is the most likely here. Any chance you can upgrade to 5.5?

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Works for me against ESX 5.0 - @jonc650 does your url point directly to an ESX box or vCenter? You can try: govc about -debug ... and have a look at ~/.govmomi/debug//.res.xml to see the response. In your case, the error happens when trying to unmarshal the response:

vim25/xml/read.go: e := "expected element <" + finfo.name + "> in name space " + finfo.xmlns + " but have "

% govc about
Name: VMware ESXi
Vendor: VMware, Inc.
Version: 5.0.0
Build: 1243428
OS type: vmnix-x86
API type: HostAgent
API version: 5.0
Product ID: embeddedEsx
UUID:

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Hello

This is using vCenter. Strangely I randomly started getting a cert error instead of the above yesterday, and when I added -k=true I got a result, so it must have been something to do with our infrastructure at the time. I don't look after the VMware infrastructure, I just need to extract info from it as a sysadmin. There is the possibility we will be upgrading next year, but until then it now seems to work. Thanks for your help with this.

Jon

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