Problem Installing Third-Party Software On Virtual Machine

[SnowLeop]

Hello,

I'm running a Windows XP Pro virtual machine on my new MacBook Pro (I'm a newbie to VMWare Fusion). I took my external USB drive from my old computer and connected it to the Mac. I connected the drive to the Windows XP VM and tried to install software from a "software depot" on the USB drive. This is the procedure I've always followed installing this software on a "regular" Windows PC, and it has always worked. Now the installation is failing: I get a splash screen for a few seconds. Then that disappears and nothing else happens. The installation log contains an error (see below).

I can see
vmware-host\Shared Folders in Windows Explorer, but I can't create a folder there. Normally I would expect the installation to look for that folder at c:\Documents and Settings\<<userid>>\Local Settings ... . Does anyone have insight into why something in the Windows VM would be looking "outside" into the Mac environment?

Here's the log:

INFO: ExeProc::ExeandDis


play::cmd="..\..\products\javaruntime__92170__win__xx__sp0__1\bin\java" -Xmx512M -jar deploywiz\setup.jar -templocation "C:\DOCUME_{1\Deborah\LOCALS}1\Temp\_setup29462" -startuplocation "E:\DownloadedSoftware\SAS9.2SoftwareDepot"


Fri Mar 05 09:32:38 2010


ERROR: ExeProc::ReadFromPipe=Standard output</font>

<font face="Calibri"><span style="font-weight: bold">Could not create directory:
vmware-host\Shared Folders\Local Settings\Application Data\SAS\SASDeploymentWizard\9.2</span></font>

java.io.IOException: Couldn't get lock for
vmware-host\Shared Folders\SDW_%u.log</font>

[admin]

It sounds sort of like you have a read-only mirrored folder. In Virtual Machine > Settings, do you have any shared or mirrored folders enabled?

[SnowLeop]

Hi, I'm new to this. How do I get to Virtual Machine --&gt; Settings?

When I went to the Windows VM, there was already a z: drive mapped to
vmware-host\Shared Folders.

[SnowLeop]

Once I used VMWare Tools to turn off Sharing Folders, this problem went away and I was able to install my software.<!Session data>