I have the same issue. It stuck around 5%

I hate to be another 'me too' poster, but here it is.. me too!

No previous tools installed. Sticks at 'Writing files...'. I have left it for over an hour, and no change.

Cheers,
Mark.

Hm. Okay, sorry to hear you guys are hitting problems. Can you guys provide some more info on your host and guest environments? I'll bring this to people's attention internally.

I am on an iMac mid-2011 running host os Mac OS X 10.9.4 with 16GB RAM and 2 Intel Core i7s running at 3.4 GHz (8 cores).

VMware fusion is Professional Version e.x.p (1943533).

The guest OS is Mac OS X 10.10 beta 3. Although I saw exactly the same results with 10.10 betas 1 and 2.

The guest OS was cleanly installed as Mac OS X 10.9.4 from the recovery partition. It was then upgraded to OS 10.10 beta 1.

I have given the guest OS 4 cores, and 4GB memory, with a 40GB hdd. The display is reporting as 'Display 3 MB' on the About This Mac window.

No errors are shown in the Console app (logs).

The 'Install VMware Tools' window just sits at the 'Writing files...' stage indefinitely.

If you need any more information, please let me know.

Kind regards,
Mark.

It doesn't work with any first Yosemite too.

Apart from that, after installing VM fusion July you can create new image from disc in VM fusion 6

cleaning both installations of vmware fusion and installing just VM fusion 6 solves the problem

Regards

Bartek

same problem here

MBPro 17" early 2011

Maverick 10.9.4

Clean install VM 10.9  and updated to Yosamite DP2

VMWare Tools Installer hangs at 'Writing files...' - 5%....

Did several reboots ad retries, but no luck so far

And here too on DP1.

I'll add my voice to the list, even with DP4

Mid 2010 Macbook Pro

Host: OS X 10.9.4

Guest: OS X 10.10 DP4

Did a clean install with the DP1 app.

Hangs on "writing files..."

dlhotka wrote: And here too on DP1.

dlhotka,

I haven tried the VMware Fusion Technology Preview July 2014 yet as I've just got back from a 1 month trip (vacation) and was for most of it in remote areas without Cell Phone or Internet, only SAT Phone working.  I have in the past manually installed VMware Tools in an OS X Guest using Pacifist and it worked when the "Install VMware Tools.app" wouldn't.  Try using the "VMware Tools.pkg" from within the "Install VMware Tools.app" bundle and Pacifist.

Woody

Had the same problem. Here's a work-around that worked for me:

Find the disk image "darwin.iso" in the "VMware Fusion Tech Preview.app" package ("Contents/Library/isoImages"), mount it, and copy out the "Install VMware Tools.app" to your Desktop.

Transfer this file into the guest OS. (You can't use disk sharing since the tools aren't installed yet. I used "scp" to the host OS...)

Run "Install VMware Tools.app" from inside the Yosemite guest OS. Installs fine.

Hope this helps someone.

-M

Find the disk image "darwin.iso" in the "VMware Fusion Tech Preview.app" package ("Contents/Library/isoImages"), mount it, and copy out the "Install VMware Tools.app" to your Desktop.

 

Transfer this file into the guest OS. (You can't use disk sharing since the tools aren't installed yet. I used "scp" to the host OS...)

There really is no need whatsoever to use anything like scp since VMware Tools for OS X (the darwin.iso file) can just be mounted manually as the CD/DVD and directly accessed under the Guest OS or automatically if using "Install VMware Tools" from the Virtual Machine menu and then simply drag and drop the the "Install VMware Tools.app" bundle onto the Guest OS Desktop.  If it does install fine after copying it from the ISO Image that's an easier workaround then using Pacifist however anytime I've had VMware Tools hang during an install under OS X Pacifist worked when the normal install didn't.

I also had the waiting on VMware Tools problem with my Yosemite Beta 1 VM machine.

I was able to install tools by getting darwin.iso from the "VMware Fusion Tech Preview.app", mounting it as a CD/DVD as WoodyZ advised, then running VMware Tools from there.

I'm using the July 2014 Tech Preview on a 2011 Mac mini (Macmini5,1) running Mavericks 10.9.4 with an SSD installed in place of the previous hard-disk.

The Guest OS is the recently released Yosemite Beta 1 from the App Store (installed from scratch), with 2GB memory & 2 Processor Cores & 40GB SATA Hard drive. Graphics are set to accelerated with a max of 128MB display memory.

We are able to reproduce the problem internally, and we are working on it.