My colleague was trying to install VMware vSphere Client 4 on his Windows 8 x64 workstation, but without success. The setup was failing with following error message :
Windows 8 is above Windows XP SP 2, right ? :) Anyway, changing the compatibility setting of the setup VMware-viclient-all-4.1.0-258902-v4.1.exe to Windows XP SP2 or Windows XP SP3, didn't fix the problem, the setup was failing again.
VMware-viclient-all-4.1.0-258902-v4.1.exe is self extracting archive, so I've extracted the archive to a folder. Extracted folder contains bin and redist subfolders. In bin subfolder there is VMware-viclient.exe setup. Running this setup using compatibility settings was without success, setup was failing with same error message.
In order to extract the .msi from setup, I ran :
Windows 8 is above Windows XP SP 2, right ? :) Anyway, changing the compatibility setting of the setup VMware-viclient-all-4.1.0-258902-v4.1.exe to Windows XP SP2 or Windows XP SP3, didn't fix the problem, the setup was failing again.
VMware-viclient-all-4.1.0-258902-v4.1.exe is self extracting archive, so I've extracted the archive to a folder. Extracted folder contains bin and redist subfolders. In bin subfolder there is VMware-viclient.exe setup. Running this setup using compatibility settings was without success, setup was failing with same error message.
In order to extract the .msi from setup, I ran :
vmware-viclient.exe /a /s /v" /qn TARGETDIR=C:\viclient"In the viclient folder there was VMware vSphere Client 4.1.msi. I have adjusted the compatibility mode to be for "Previous version of Windows". The VMware vSphere Client 4.1.msi was failing again, but with another type of error message complaining about J# redistributable package. The Windows 8 x64 was missing J# redistributable package. Redistributable package of J# can be obtained from Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15468 or from previously extracted folder redist. After installation of J# redistributable package, the VMware vSphere Client 4.1.msi setup has completed successfully.
Thanks for this. I just spent hours trying to get this to work and this finally did it.
ReplyDeleteIf you install the vshpere client 5.1 first, the J# redistributable package will be installed automaticly. However, Extracting the 4.1 client package and set the compatibility to windows 7 was still needed.
ReplyDeletethanks, worked for me
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