You did not mention where you obtained the install from.

On the client PC, pint your browser to http://<virtual center server&gt;

Download the client directlly from your Virtual Center Server.  This way you alway have a compatable client to work with VC.

VMware Infrastructure Update is different than Update Manager.  Infrastructure Update is installed by default when you install the VI Client.  It's used for patching embedded esx servers. 

Check your installer log files for more information.  They should be located in your temp folder.....    %temp%

Hi,

Even i get same error. We have ESX 3.5 and i got the msi from my VC server which is running 2.5 with update manager running fine. Below are the details in my vminst.log file. If i say ok on the error screen, it proceed and could use VI Client without any issues but the version of VI Client is different to the version of my VC server when viewed from Help -> About menu. Any idea what need to be done here?

VMware VirtualCenter-build-84767: 05/27/08 12:26:34 Process returned 1603

VMware VirtualCenter-build-84767: 05/27/08 12:26:34 Update Service Client setup

returned error code <1603>.

VMware VirtualCenter-build-84767: 05/27/08 12:26:34 Posting error message 25095

VMware VirtualCenter-build-84767: 05/27/08 12:46:51 MsiProcessMessage returned:

1

VMware VirtualCenter-build-84767: 05/27/08 12:46:51 End Logging

Thanks

To add another piece to the puzzle, I have one workstation that is exhibiting the exact same behaviour.   I have tried installing the version from the CD and the one downloaded from the VCMS.  I've tried extracting the MSI and doing an admin install and they all fail . . . . on one workstation.  Still working to identify what about this workstation is causing the install error.  All prior versions have been uninstalled.

Lance

I have the same error on a new server build 2003 std r2 with a local SQL 2005 install.   It's so frustrating, I've tried VC2.5 r1 and r2 with exactly the same results :

vminst.log output:

VMware VirtualCenter-build-84782: 08/06/08 11:59:57 VC server setup returned error code &lt;1603&gt;.

VMware VirtualCenter-build-84782: 08/06/08 11:59:57 Posting error message 25036

VMware VirtualCenter-build-84782: 08/06/08 11:59:59 MsiProcessMessage returned: 1

VMware VirtualCenter-build-84782: 08/06/08 11:59:59 End Logging

I know my DB is fine as i've ran remote queries that have returned ok and the ODBC System DSN is good without any spaces in the name and &lt; 8 characters in length.

Anyone have an update? 

Cheers

Hi all,

recently we had the same problem and we found that our domain GPO was blocking our Infrastructure Update Client installation.

Relevant registry section:

Key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer\

Value:

DisableUserInstalls

Set the value to 0 (zero) , remove the VI Client and reinstall all.