At the end of the installation, the MSI installer tries to register a VMWare process for allowed permission for AUTHD protocol through the firewall. This fails with the above and below error.
I'm using Windows 7 64 bits and run it as local admin for installation. I tried both with and without SP1, tried restarts, closed virus scanners and the like, cleaning %TEMP% and running installation process with -c for cleaning up. None of these help. I've attached the MSI installation log, which shows the following line where it goes wrong:
MSI (s) (A4:34) [23:13:03:021]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\Windows\Installer\MSI987D.tmp, Entrypoint: VMInstallParport
MSI (s) (A4:60) [23:13:04:697]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=VM_OpenFirewallForAuthd,,)
MSI (s) (A4:60) [23:13:04:697]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=VM_OpenFirewallForAuthd,ActionType=3073,Source=BinaryData,Target=VMOpenFirewallForApp,CustomActionData=C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Player\vmware-authd.exe;VMware Authd)
MSI (s) (A4:20) [23:13:04:699]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\Windows\Installer\MSI9F13.tmp, Entrypoint: VMOpenFirewallForApp
MSI (s) (A4!B0) [23:27:01:768]: Product: VMware Player -- Error 25035. Unable to give program VMware Authd permission through the firewall. Please contact your administrator.
Error 25035. Unable to give program VMware Authd permission through the firewall. Please contact your administrator.
CustomAction VM_OpenFirewallForAuthd returned actual error code 1603 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox)
MSI (s) (A4:60) [23:27:01:784]: User policy value 'DisableRollback' is 0
MSI (s) (A4:60) [23:27:01:784]: Machine policy value 'DisableRollback' is 0
Action ended 23:27:01: InstallFinalize. Return value 3.
Looking for the error 1603 gives some hits on Microsoft sites, but nothing that actually solves this issue. I've seen this reported once before on this forum with the remark that reinstalling would help. However, after eight times installing, I'm pretty sure it doesn't help in my case. Anybody any other ideas? Can I request the installer to simply succeed (i.e., not remove everything afterwards and continue on error) and add the exception rule to the firewall myself?