VMware Workstation 15.5.7-17171714 Setup Wizard ended prematurely because of an error

[FelixZha]

Excuse me, my English is not good, I'll try my best.

Because of my job situation,I have to use Windows 7 (64bit) for my PC, can`t change it to Win 10.

My PC didn`t installed any VMware Workstation before. But just can not install it successfully.

When the first time I`ve got this problem,I`ve tried to  uninstall and remove all previous VMware files and registry entries(actually most of them doesn`t exist).

I used CCleaner to remove registry entries. And installed Microsoft Visual C++ 2008/2010/2013/2015-2019 redistribution packages.

But it didn`t work. Then I reinstalled the Windows 7 64bit Oprate system, with no other applications, just some necessary drivers and Visual C++ redistribution packages.

The result is same as before. 

And I`ve read several threads here, didn`t help.

It always stop when it shows"Installing vmx".

I`ll upload my vmins.log and vmmis.log file, maybe it helps.

[btmp · Accepted solution]

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2021-08-04T18:56:23.724+08:00| inst-build-17171714| I1: BaseDriverManager::DifxApiLogCallback: vmx86 (Difx): vmx86.inf: checking signature with catalog 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Drivers\vmx86\Win7\vmx86.cat' ...
2021-08-04T18:56:23.771+08:00| inst-build-17171714| E1: BaseDriverManager::DifxApiLogCallback: vmx86: Signature verification failed while checking integrity of driver package 'vmx86.inf' ('C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Drivers\vmx86\Win7\vmx86.inf').| winerror code 2148204809 (A certificate chain processed, but terminated in a root certificate which is not trusted by the trust provider.)

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My first suggestion would be to ensure you have updated the Win7 Host. Specifically with KB4474419 to ensure it can validate SHA2 Digital Signatures.

[FelixZha]

Thank you very much for the reply, It really helps.

Though my Windows update function doesn`t work, finally I found some other way to have this done.

And then the VMware workstation was installed successfully!