I am installing VMWare WS 7 for the first time (ever), and I am not getting past the first 10 seconds!
I have a new, reasonable spec desktop PC, with Win 7 Ultimate x64 installed. 200GB of free disk space, 4GB RAM.
As soon as I try running VMware-workstation-7.0.1-227600.exe (logged in as Administrator), it comes up with a weird dialog box - see screenshot below.
I have to use Task Manager to force the non-responsive window to
close.
The website expeditionoverland is mine, but I have no idea
why it appears in the dialog box, or what the connection is!
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Michael...
Thanks for the suggestion, golddiggie. I didn't "unblock", but now I have - same result!
Interestingly, I have subsequently downloaded VMWare Player, and tried to install that, and it comes up with exactly the same unclosable dialog box. Very weird - in all other respects my system is stable and reliable.
I was wondering if it's somehow related to the browser - I use Firefox as the default browser rather than than IE. But my homepage is not set to expeditionoverland.com, and in fact I cannot see how the website bears any relation to VMWare. The local file "file:///C:/D198AEED/index.htm.htm" doesn't seem to exist either.
I'd love to use VMWare to set up some virtual OS's at work, but this has not been a promising start!
Try extracting the installers from the exe file before you perform the install. You can do it by using the Run command line and entering: c:\VMware-workstation-full-7.0.1-227600.exe /extract "DestinationFolder" Basically, it's the full path to where the install exe file is located with the /extract switch added and the directory you want the files placed within. The folder will be created at the same directory level as the installer/exe file rests at. Once that's done, you'll have the actual MSI file that you can execute in order to perform the install.
I also use Firefox as my default browser, and didn't have any problem installing the latest release of Workstation.
Did you download WS 7.0 from the VMware website ? Try downloading WS 7.0 again from the VMware website and check the downloaded version with the MD5 checksum file.
Golddiggie, thanks for the excellent suggestion - that worked perfectly!
Interestingly, the extract process created a new "VMware-workstation-full-7.0.1-227600.exe" in the extract folder, which is just a few kB smaller than the downloadable version. And this new exe worked fine (as did clicking the msi file directly).
I have no idea what caused the original problem - something in the wrapper, but I can't imagine what.
Anyway, thanks a million - installing now, so I hope it all goes well.
Cheers,
Michael...