The tool does, and manual removing services or editing the registry has nothing to do weather it is a vm or not. Indeed it is mentioned that these method are for inside a vm, but if you tried you would find they also work outside a vm. This problem is just a little stickier than that however. Thank you for taking a couple minutes to try to show us a solution. I and several others still feel like we have a legitimate complaint against vmware because their tools application will not uninstall if the host machine is not a vmware product. I did not spend only two minutes on this, I spent closer to twenty hours over two days. If you look through the docs for what you just sent and if you had lived through a similar situation you would understand that machines removed from a virtual environment into a hard one or transfered to another platform, you will discover that even those removal tools only function inside vmware. Neither of the solutions you present are relevant because they both involve machines still in an vmware environment. How hard is it to click the "Start a discussion" link under Actions? It is in the top left quadrant of the web page and seems normal and appropriate to me.Ĭheers to you too Sir, but please be careful about criticizing others unsolved problems. You uninstall VMware Tools from Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel in Windows. Come to think of it, this happened the last time I repaired VMWare tools (can't seem to get the Repair dialogue to show up anymore-it's only Update now as an option).Īttaching some images in case they help anyone to help me. When I removed it and reinstalled, it got to the end of install and said it had an error and had to report it to Microsoft, etc. Worked but I'm still hosed on VMWare tools. Thanks for the hint on Add/Remove Programs. Being completely out of commission for hours now from this VMWare tools thing (can't get on 'net) is not helping me to focus either. Was just giving some UI input from a newbie to the site but not a newbie to forums in general. (which is very cool, btw.)Īnyway, maybe I'm just low on coffee this morning. Well I would expect you to say that after almost 12,000 posts in this forum. Maybe I'm the only one.kind of suspect not though. Now I know, but I'd suggest changing that one. Is this a forum page or a knowledge base home page? Looks like it is trying to be both and it adds time trying to hunt around finding a way to start a topic. Here it is at the top of the page with tons of non-forum links between "Start a topic" and the forum itself. Every other forum on earth has "Start a Topic" right above the forum itself. How do I kill that process and restart it? Or better yet, how do I yank it out by the roots and reinstall VMWare Tools from the beginning?Īlso, as a side note, this discussion forum's UI is kind of goofy. Is it trying to install itself already? Or did I start that one of these times I tried to repair it and it got stuck installing? When I try to Install VMWare Tools, it appears that my only option is to Cancel VMWare Tools Installation. Then suddenly died.īut Fusion thinks it is still working I guess. I can't even get my guest OS (Windows XP Home) on the 'net whereas it was working perfectly previously for weeks and weeks. Doing so will bring up a dialog with the Force Quit, Cancel and Quit button.VMWare Tools is not working. Select the process and hit the big red Quit Process button on the far left of the toolbar. Now look for vmware-vmx and VMware Fusion. This also works for reboot and Hansubi: open Activity Monitor and take a look at the right hand side of the toolbar, click on the pulldown menu on the left hand side of the search field (it has the word "filter" in it) and choose the option "All processes". If you need to force it you need to press and hold the option key and than press the shutdown button or choose it from the menu. Pressing the button or choosing the menu option will do a normal shutdown, it does not force it. You can add the shutdown button to the vm toolbar if you want but normally you'll have to choose it from the menu (Virtual machine > Shut down). If a vm does not want to shutdown for whatever reason try to force the shutdown of the vm first. You get all sorts of problems when you force quite Fusion. It says the request to reset the virtual machine failed because the corresponding vmware tools script did not run successfully.Īnd when I do force quit and start it back up again i get a dialog box saying failed to get exclusive lock on the configuration file. I do that and it shuts down, but windows xp itself doesn't want to reboot or shut down.
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