Vix and Perl - Simple example does not work

Hi!

I installed the VMWare Server 2.0 Beta today with hopes of using the Vix-perl api with VMWare Server.  This server is installed on RHEL ES4

The installation went fine and I can connect to the vmware server on its website using the root username/password (but not as the user I am logged in to as on the machine). I found the libs for Vix and added them to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH

So when I do something like:

bash-3.00$ perl -e "use VMware::Vix::Simple"

I get no errors.

When I run a program to connect to the host (local host in this case), I get errors like:

-bash-3.00$ perl test1.pl

Connecting to Host Machine...ERROR! 3: One of the parameters was invalid-bash-3.00$ 

My Program

-

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

use warnings;

use VMware::Vix::Simple;

use VMware::Vix::API::Constants;

my $hostType= VIX_SERVICEPROVIDER_VMWARE_SERVER;

my $hostName= undef;

my $hostPort= undef;

my $userName= undef;

my $password= undef;

my $options = 0;

my $propertyListHandle = VIX_INVALID_HANDLE;

#Host Connect

print "Connecting to Host Machine...";

my ($err, $hostHandle) = HostConnect(VIX_API_VERSION,

$hostType,

$hostName,

$hostPort,

$userName,

$password,

$options,

$propertyListHandle);

if(VIX_OK != $err){

print ("ERROR! $err: " . GetErrorText($err));

exit(1);

}

else {

print "Success!\n";

-

END PROGRAM

I'd really appreciate some help in getting this going! Please let me know if you need more information

Thanks

Rahul