Gnawgnus Realm: vmware 2 install - system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation error

Thursday, October 16, 2008

vmware 2 install - system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation error

Whilst trying to upgrade my VMWare server 1.0 to the new 2.0 version, I ran into a fun error.

So I tried a few resolutions I had found on the web which led me to this patch:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925336

Now granted, the title of that KB seems misleading but apparently it applies here too. Since VMWare made this big huge install file (500+ MB), you have to install this patch and reboot. Afterwards, the installer worked fine for me.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...: THis works fine, thx a lot;-); October 28, 2008 at 12:28 PM
Anonymous said...: Worked for me too.; October 30, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Anonymous said...: I tried this solution and it worked for me.

Thanks,
Marcio; November 3, 2008 at 5:42 AM
Milton Moore said...: It worked! You are the Man! 8-)

Thanks,
Milton; November 9, 2008 at 2:33 PM
Anonymous said...: thanks!

Admin Guy, London UK; November 10, 2008 at 9:40 AM
Anonymous said...: damn wtf was vmware thinking... thanks buddy worked for me; November 19, 2008 at 5:31 PM
Jason Poll said...: Thanks, chalk me up as another that this worked for.

Don't you love error messages that don't really indicate the real problem?; December 1, 2008 at 3:30 PM
Anonymous said...: that did the job; December 3, 2008 at 4:31 PM
Anonymous said...: worked for me as well; December 9, 2008 at 5:21 PM
Anonymous said...: Thank you very much! It works for WinXP x64 too and save my time.

Peng,; July 16, 2009 at 8:30 AM
compuiter techh said...: thanks for the solution, the problem fixed.

You are a great Techie; August 4, 2009 at 6:59 AM
Anonymous said...: Worked here also....WinServer2003 R2 and VMWare Server 2.0.2; October 14, 2010 at 4:30 AM