{"id":155,"date":"2009-03-21T02:09:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T01:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2009-03-21T02:09:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T01:09:48","slug":"problems-uninstalling-vmware-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Problems uninstalling VMware Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

To night I had problems with uninstalling VMware Tools in a VM after updating to the latest ESX release.<\/p>\n

The uninstaller kept asking me to insert the “VMWare Tools” disk and click OK”.
\nIn the popup window there is pull-down field labeled “Use Source” and in this field is the number one (“1”).<\/p>\n

If I tried to browse to the the “VMware Tools.msi” it returns an error: “The file ‘X:\\VMware Tools.msi’ is not a valid installation package for the product VMware Tools…”<\/p>\n

The solution I used to get around this problem was simply:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Open the registry<\/li>\n
  2. Locate “[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Installer\\Products\\8E24D35BB278E034284D0860A513CF1E” and delete it.
    \n(If you don’t want to delete it, just rename it or make a backup first)<\/li>\n
  3. Run the VMware Tools installation again.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And wola it nor works \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    To night I had problems with uninstalling VMware Tools in a VM after updating to the latest ESX release. The uninstaller kept asking me to insert the “VMWare Tools” disk and click OK”. In the popup window there is pull-down field labeled “Use Source” and in this field is the number one (“1”). If I\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,90,12,16],"tags":[100,103,102,326,98,99,97,101],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-errors","category-troubleshooting","category-virtual-center","category-esx-x","tag-100","tag-8e24d35bb278e034284d0860a513cf1e","tag-is-not-a-valid-installation-package-for-the-product-vmware-tools","tag-tools","tag-uninstall","tag-use-source","tag-vmware-tools","tag-vmware-toolsmsi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}