I got the error "Setup cannot continue. The Microsoft Runtime DLL installer failed to complete installation".
I read another bloggers suggestion to download the redistributable directly from Microsoft, which almost helped me, but it installed sucessfully, no help there.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=EB4EBE2D-33C0-4A47-9DD4-B9A6D7BD44DA&displaylang=en
However, it gave me an idea, I run the setup, and when the error was on my screen (and before I clicked ok) I could go to my %temp% directory and try to run the vcredist_x64.exe file manually, it gave the error that it couldn't write to D: drive, not enough space. Well, I have a CD-ROM drive in D:, so that doesn't suprise me alot.
I simply swapped my D: and E: drives and fixed my issue, now it installed like a champ, I know this is a workaround, not a fix, but if it happens again I know where to start.
3 comments:
Great tip. I was running into the same problem with VMware server 2.0 on W2K3-R2 32-bit. I just ran VMware Server.msi from %temp% directory before clicking on the OK on the original MS MSI installer window.
This is a very good post. I ended up opening the %TEMP% folder and navigating to the temporary VMWARE folder "C:\DOCUME~1\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp\{AF08C71F-F822-4416-87A9-2BBF5A8A5F12}~setup" and running the direct installer "VMware Server". That worked really well
very useful indeed. For some reason the domain policy on our machines now forbids the installation of the visual c++ redistributable (it didnt last year), but running the .msi for vmware itself from the temp folder works fine.
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