Hello All! I'm having an issue installing VMware Horizon Client 5.5.2 on my computer. This also fails when trying to upgrade from 5.5.1 to 5.5.2.
I first tried the upgrade but got an Install Failed error, which then rolled back the change and ended up deleting VMware from my computer.
So I downloaded the 5.5.2 installer and ran that, same thing.
Uninstalled the 2 .Net frameworks it installed. Ensured VMware wasn't listed anymore in Control Panel and rebooted.
Used this command to install it again:
VMware-Horizon-Client-5.5.2-18035009.exe /silent /norestart /log log.txt
From that log.txt file, the Exit code is 0x80070643, which is an MSI error from what I've found online.
Checking Event Viewer I see this:
Windows Installer installed the product. Product Name: VMware Horizon Client. Product Version: 5.5.2.19778. Product Language: 1033. Manufacturer: VMware, Inc.. Installation success or error status: 1603.
MSI code 1603 is just fatal error. From here I am unsure. Following MS's KB on it, I verified the product was uninstalled, destination is not an encrypted folder, I am installing to the main SSD, same as Windows is on, and SYSTEM has full access to this directory.
I did right click the installer and hit Run as Admin as well so that's not it. The Command Prompt I used was an admin one as well.
I attached the two log files here.
Can you help determine what's going wrong?
Let me know if you need anymore information here.
Ciao
Have you tried to disable any antivirus SW on the client?
In the past, I have had a similar problem because the installation tries to write an entry in the HOSTS file.
The entry that installation try to insert in the file host is
127.0.0.1 view-localhost # view localhost server
Just tried that to verify and see the same behavior.
This has worked with previous versions of VMware as well, so I don't think the anti-virus is blocking it.