unattended/silent install VMware Tools

[bverm]

Greetings,

When trying to do a silent install on a VM using the info in http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=200039... I'm not getting any results.

I tried the following commands:

msiexec /Fvomus "c:\Temp\VMware Tools64.msi" /qb ADDLOCAL=ALL REMOVE=ThinPrint,WYSE REBOOT=ReallySuppress

==> This says everything succeeds in the event log, yet nothing is installed. The tools build/version number stays the same.

msiexec /Fvomus "c:\Temp\VMware Tools64.msi" /qn REBOOT=R ADDLOCAL=ALL REMOVE=Hgfs,WYSE,ThinPrint

==> Same story.

msiexec /Fvomus "c:\Temp\VMware Tools64.msi" /qb ADDLOCAL=ALL REBOOT=ReallySuppress

==> When I use this, I get a short pop up of the tools installation starting, however after this screen nothing happens, eventhough it says the installation succeeded.

Did anybody have more luck upgrading the VMware Tools using a command?

Thanks in advance,

Bram

[ScreamingSilenc · Accepted solution]

Have you checked the doc in below link

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-12413?tstart=0

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VMware KB: Installing VMware Tools in a Windows virtual machine

[bverm]

Hello ScreamingSilence.

I hadn't. In that doc they use /i instead of /Fvomus (which they use in the kb). Using /i instead of /Fvomus worked without giving an error message saying it's already installed and first needs to be removed (which it says in the doc). So I didn't need the "REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus" from the doc. Which I find weird.

I use which a lot, which intrigues me.

Either way, thanks for the information!

ps. The command I ended up using was: msiexec.exe /i "VMware Tools.msi" /qb ADDLOCAL=ALL REMOVE=ThinPrint,WYSE REBOOT=ReallySuppress

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