Hi All,
I am having difficulty with the silent installation of VMware Workstation 9.0.1. Our requirement is to deploy VMWorkstation to allow end users to have a sandbox environment however with no networking features.
The platform I am installing on is Windows 7 x64.
I have read and re-read the documentation and still haven't been able to get it to install with the REMOVE paramenter working.
I have been able to extract the admin installer (msi) using the switches setup.exe /s /e location.
from there i have succesfully installed VMWorkstationx64 with the following :
msiexec /i "vmwareworkstation_x64.msi" /qn /l* c:\temp\vminst.log /norestart
I have tried to remove the network components with the REMOVE=Network and a combination of REMOVE=NAT etc and in the log it states
'DEBUG: Error 2711: The specified feature name ('Network') not found in Feature Table. the same is logged for the other features I have tried to remove.
I have tried all combinations for case sensitivity and DHCP, NAT, Authd features which the documentation states should work.
to validate the syntax i ran msiexec /i "vmwareworkstation_x64.msi" REMOVE=ALL /qn /l* c:\temp\vminst.log /norestart this uninstalled all of the vmware features.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
regards
Adam