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  • 1.  VMware Tools Uninstalls Itself (XP)

    Posted Sep 07, 2011 04:12 PM

    I am running a Windows XP guest in VMware Player on a Windows 7 (64bit) host. I start the guest. I install VMware tools. It says I need to reboot to complete installation. I reboot. Everything works beautifully. After a few minutes the VMware Tools progress bar pops up and silently uninstalls VMware Tools. Then the next time I reboot the guest I am naturally missing all of the wonderful drivers that come with VMware Tools...

    Any ideas why it is uninstalling itself?? Let me know if I need to provide more info. Thanks!



  • 2.  RE: VMware Tools Uninstalls Itself (XP)

    Posted Sep 19, 2011 06:27 PM

    I thought maybe it had to do with me installing from a domain account....

    So I created a new local user and added him to the local administrators group and used him to install VMware Tools..... and guess what!

    IT UNINSTALLED!

    canihashelp?

    plz?

    kthx!



  • 3.  RE: VMware Tools Uninstalls Itself (XP)

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Sep 22, 2011 05:24 PM

    ¿Que raro? :smileysilly:

    Could you grab all the vm*.log files from inside your guest's %TEMP% directory and attach them to this thread please?  These are the installer logs, and hopefully they'll give us some clue about what's kicking them off.



  • 4.  RE: VMware Tools Uninstalls Itself (XP)

    Posted Sep 26, 2011 03:18 PM

    Sorry about the delayed response. Work was getting in my way...

    I really appreciate you taking the time to help me!!