Update 12.5.0->12.5.1 not free of issues?

[thewul]

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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[xindayu]

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!

[RDPetruska]

The other possibility is if you renamed the installer to "VMware.exe", instead of leaving it with the version number, etc.

[thewul]

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??