will retry later, but timebeing I'll stick to 12.5.0
Note, in between I fully closed (File->Exit) VMware and relaunched it.
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Hi thewul,
When it prompts to shutdown vmware.exe in the picture 1, it means that the Workstation UI or VM is in the running state.
So would you please try to close VMware Workstation when it prompts to shutdown vmware.exe, then click "Next" again to continue?
Thanks!
The other possibility is if you renamed the installer to "VMware.exe", instead of leaving it with the version number, etc.
Up front, very sorry for the delay. Was out for some time and then facing a bit of a backlog.
Thank you.
The thing is, I assumed... that using File->Exit (see my post) that by then VMware would have been removed from running processes or whatever.
I checked the taskmanager and a lot of stuff was still running in the background, even after File->Exit.
I wish there was a way to indeed have all VMware processes removed...
I ran my stop_vmware.bat
taskkill /F /IM "vmware.exe"
taskkill /F /IM "vmware-tray.exe"
net stop VMwareHostd
sc config VMwareHostd start= disabled
net stop VMUSBArbService
sc config VMUSBArbService start= disabled
net stop VMAuthdService
sc config VMAuthdService start= disabled
net stop VMnetDHCP
sc config VMnetDHCP start= disabled
net stop "VMware NAT Service"
sc config "VMware NAT Service" start= disabled
netsh interface set interface "VMware Network Adapter VMnet1" DISABLED
netsh interface set interface "VMware Network Adapter VMnet8" DISABLED
downloaded the 12.5.1 installer (318MB) and the installation went fine now.
Note: I separately run a VMware start batch, but used File->Exit (wrongly) assuming that by then the processes would be removed.
Wish VMware_start.bat and Stop_vmware.bat would have combined in a way that running 1 batch would start the services, start vmware and upon file->exit, executes the stop-vmware.bat
or would it be possible to simply add the stop_vmware.bat lines below start vmware.exe ? (see below)
I don't know.
Anyway, thanks again!
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vmware_start.bat
sc config VMUSBArbService start= demand
net start VMUSBArbService
sc config VMAuthdService start= demand
net start VMAuthdService
sc config VMwareHostd start= demand
net start VMwareHostd
sc config VMnetDHCP start= demand
net start VMnetDHCP
sc config "VMware NAT Service" start= demand
net start "VMware NAT Service"
netsh interface set interface "VMware Network Adapter VMnet1" ENABLED
netsh interface set interface "VMware Network Adapter VMnet8" ENABLED
d:
cd VMware
start vmware.exe
*add the contents of stop_vmware.bat here??