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“The MSI ” failed” when uninstalling VMware Workstation 8 on Windows 7

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This has bugged me for 2 days now. There are many forum threads, KB articles and guides out there that point to the right direction, but none of them worked out for me. However, today I finally got rid of Workstation 8!

And here is what I did:

First I got the VMware installer from the VMware Homepage.
Then I opened a command prompt as a local administrator. I switched to the location of the installer, and started it in “Uninstall mode”.

C:\>cd C:\Downloads
C:\Downloads>VMware-workstation-full-8.0.1-528992.exe /x

On the dialogue I choose “Repair”. After the installer finished his work and my machine has rebooted, I was able to uninstall VMware Workstation. iWin!
Questions? Comments?

Zugriff auf VMware Server via SSH Tunnel

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VMware Server auf HostA. Wir arbeiten am Client auf HostB. Zugriff von HostB auf HostA nur via SSH moeglich.

Wir moechten nun von HostB aus aufs Webinterface UND auf die Remotekonsole auf HostA zugreifen.

Lösung

Zum Glueck klappt das ganze vie SSH-Tunnels. Man muss nur wissen welche Ports das sind :)

  • 8222 - Webinterface HTTP (0der gem. Config)
  • 8333 - Webinterface HTTPS (0der gem. Config)
  • 902 - Remote Console (0der gem. Config)
  • 8307 - ?Soap?; Wird auch fuer die Remote Console gebraucht.

Das wars, nun kann via http://localhost:8222/ auf die VMware Konsole zugegriffen werden!