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Kuttima211296
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VMWare Workstation Fatal Error and Auto uninstall

I had use the Old version of VMWare Workstation and then try to update the latest version using command line parameters "/s /v/qn REBOOT=ReallySuppress EULAS_AGREED=1". It got failed with error "Error Code : 1603 , Error Message : Fatal error during installation.".

And then the application seems to get uninstalled. Please explain why the application got uninstalled automatically.

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continuum
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That is because Workstation can not be updated in place.
The routine always is "uninstall - when that worked - install new version"


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yanw
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Actually the command line supports upgrade installer with format

<--*.exe /s /v"/qn EULAS_AGREED=1 REBOOT=Reallysuppress">, the error message shows that installer hit some unexpected issue. Would you please upload the installer log (vminst.log and vmmis_xxxx.log) which locates in %temp% folder ?

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