vmware player freezes during install

[omergrigg1]

I'm trying to install vmware player on a win7 64-bit system.

During the "installing packages on the system" phase, near the end, it just freezes. I can still move the mouse around a bit etc, but after a while the whole system freezes completely.

When I reboot (after forced shutdown), it looks like vmware was installed, but when I try to open a machine/app in the player it says that certain packages are missing. So the install didn't finish properly.

The same happened when I tried installing vmware workstation.

Please help...

Thanks!

[continuum]

sometimes the installer does not find the file vmnetbridge.dll and popsup a windows to browse for the file - make sure that you are able to see any popups

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VMX-parameters- VMware-liveCD - VM-Sickbay

[mperry301]

I'm having the same issue but with Windows XP. I don't see any pop ups. Any suggestions?

[carl111]

I'm trying to install VMWare player on XP service pack 3 with all the latest patches:

Installation has halted on "Status: installing packages on the system" for an hour. No popups have appeared at any time.

The last messages from vminst.log:

VMInst: 09/08/11 14:52:08 Loaded library C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Player\vnetlib.dll(14548992)
VMInst: 09/08/11 14:52:08 Freeing library: 14548992
VMInst: 09/08/11 14:52:08 End Logging
VMInst: 09/08/11 14:52:08 Begin Logging
VMInst: 09/08/11 14:52:08 Creating VMware group and user account
VMInst: 09/08/11 14:52:08 Getting Property CustomActionData = C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Player\
VMInst: 09/08/11 14:52:08 Loaded library C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Player\adjperm.dll(14548992

and vmsetup.20110908145023.vmware player.msi.install.log:

MSI (s) (08:D8) [14:52:07:759]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=VM_perfMonInstall.05A3DB77_E7FB_4275_AA00_2FC19218E5DA,,)

MSI (s) (08:D8) [14:52:07:759]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=VM_perfMonInstall.05A3DB77_E7FB_4275_AA00_2FC19218E5DA,ActionType=1025,Source=BinaryData,Target=VMInstallPerfmon,CustomActionData=C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Player\)

MSI (s) (08:40) [14:52:07:806]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSI48.tmp, Entrypoint: VMInstallPerfmon

MSI (s) (08:D8) [14:52:07:901]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=VM_WriteRegistry,Description=Writing application registry values,)

MSI (s) (08:D8) [14:52:07:901]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=VM_WriteRegistry,ActionType=3073,Source=BinaryData,Target=VMWriteRegistry,CustomActionData=VMware Player;C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Player\;C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Player\x64\)

MSI (s) (08:10) [14:52:07:964]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSI49.tmp, Entrypoint: VMWriteRegistry

MSI (s) (08:D8) [14:52:08:232]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=VM_CreateVMwareAccount,Description=Creating VMware group and user,)

MSI (s) (08:D8) [14:52:08:232]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=VM_CreateVMwareAccount,ActionType=3073,Source=BinaryData,Target=VMCreateVMwareAccount,CustomActionData=C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Player\)

Also, when I manually uninstalled after the first installation failure, the key AE11A35.... wasn't anywhere in the registry (some of the other stuff was, though).