diff --git a/labs/vcloud-director/src/main/java/org/jclouds/vcloud/director/v1_5/features/VAppAsyncClient.java b/labs/vcloud-director/src/main/java/org/jclouds/vcloud/director/v1_5/features/VAppAsyncClient.java
index d0ed213eb9..2f1b7bde84 100644
--- a/labs/vcloud-director/src/main/java/org/jclouds/vcloud/director/v1_5/features/VAppAsyncClient.java
+++ b/labs/vcloud-director/src/main/java/org/jclouds/vcloud/director/v1_5/features/VAppAsyncClient.java
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ import org.jclouds.rest.annotations.EndpointParam;
 import org.jclouds.rest.annotations.ExceptionParser;
 import org.jclouds.rest.annotations.JAXBResponseParser;
 import org.jclouds.rest.annotations.RequestFilters;
+import org.jclouds.rest.annotations.ResponseParser;
 import org.jclouds.rest.binders.BindToXMLPayload;
 import org.jclouds.vcloud.director.v1_5.domain.ControlAccessParams;
 import org.jclouds.vcloud.director.v1_5.domain.DeployVAppParams;
@@ -82,6 +83,7 @@ import org.jclouds.vcloud.director.v1_5.domain.ovf.OperatingSystemSection;
 import org.jclouds.vcloud.director.v1_5.domain.ovf.StartupSection;
 import org.jclouds.vcloud.director.v1_5.domain.ovf.VirtualHardwareSection;
 import org.jclouds.vcloud.director.v1_5.filters.AddVCloudAuthorizationToRequest;
+import org.jclouds.vcloud.director.v1_5.functions.ReturnPayloadBytes;
 import org.jclouds.vcloud.director.v1_5.functions.ThrowVCloudErrorOn4xx;
 
 import com.google.common.util.concurrent.ListenableFuture;
@@ -538,8 +540,8 @@ public interface VAppAsyncClient {
    @GET
    @Path("/screen")
    @Consumes(ANY_IMAGE)
-   @JAXBResponseParser
    @ExceptionParser(ThrowVCloudErrorOn4xx.class)
+   @ResponseParser(ReturnPayloadBytes.class)
    ListenableFuture<byte[]> getScreenImage(@EndpointParam URI vAppURI);
 
    /**
diff --git a/labs/vcloud-director/src/main/java/org/jclouds/vcloud/director/v1_5/functions/ReturnPayloadBytes.java b/labs/vcloud-director/src/main/java/org/jclouds/vcloud/director/v1_5/functions/ReturnPayloadBytes.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6cc873db14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/labs/vcloud-director/src/main/java/org/jclouds/vcloud/director/v1_5/functions/ReturnPayloadBytes.java
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to jclouds, Inc. (jclouds) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  jclouds licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jclouds.vcloud.director.v1_5.functions;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import javax.inject.Singleton;
+
+import org.jclouds.http.HttpResponse;
+
+import com.google.common.base.Function;
+import com.google.common.base.Throwables;
+import com.google.common.io.ByteStreams;
+
+/**
+ * @author grkvlt@apache.org
+ */
+@Singleton
+public class ReturnPayloadBytes implements Function<HttpResponse, byte[]> {
+
+   @Override
+   public byte[] apply(HttpResponse from) {
+      try {
+         return ByteStreams.toByteArray(from.getPayload().getInput());
+      } catch (IOException e) {
+         throw Throwables.propagate(e);
+      }
+   }
+}
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