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VMware Tools install error 1722

9 February, 2009

Today I had problems with upgrading VMware Tools inside a VM. When install was almost finished, it reported back with an error:

“Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor.”

VMware Tools error 1722

VMware Tools error 1722

After searching through the forums I found this thread:

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1098184#1098184 in which one of the suggestions was to check the “Com+ Application Services”. On my VM it was disabled, so I enabled it, started it and then VMware Tools install went fine. I then set the service to disabled again.

by Gabrie van Zanten

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  • http://www.same-si.com ivan

    Hi Gabe,

    i am newbie in vmware products and don’t know if ESX-3.5.0_Update_3-123630 requiered some type of license.

    U know?

    thanks

    PS: sorry but my english is the worst of the Barcelona :)

  • http://www.GabesVirtualWorld.com Gabe

    I replied to you by e-mail :-)

  • Iain Reid

    Thanks Gabe, this seemed to do the trick.

    May you live long and prosper

  • mackd

    Hello Gabe,

    Thnx for the link! This solution helped me to install VMwareTools succesfully. More important, it was a resolution to a bigger problem:

    “Creating a quiesced snapshot failed because the created snapshot operation exceeded the time limit for holding off I/O in the frozen virtual machine.”

    This happened when back-ups were made automatically and manually.
    After re-installing VMwareTools, we could make back-ups again.

    Thnx again.

    Greets,

    A colleague from Rdam

  • mackd

    Hello Gabe,

    Thnx for the link! This solution helped me to install VMwareTools succesfully. More important, it was a resolution to a bigger problem:

    “Creating a quiesced snapshot failed because the created snapshot operation exceeded the time limit for holding off I/O in the frozen virtual machine.”

    This happened when back-ups were made automatically and manually.
    After re-installing VMwareTools, we could make back-ups again.

    Thnx again.

    Greets,

    A colleague from Rdam

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