Silent install: /qn (and/or other standard MSI switches, custom settings/options switches listed bellow)

New: Supported command line switches to add serial number, change installation directory, enable/disable shortcuts, automatic updates, etc. during silent or gui install

 

;;; To add your serial number
SERIALNUMBER=12345-12345-12345-12345-12345
;;; To change installation directory
INSTALLDIR=<directory>
;;; Add =1 to enable or =0 to disable the following (their <default> state is listed)
DESKTOP_SHORTCUT=<disabled>
QUICKLAUNCH_SHORTCUT=<disabled>
STARTMENU_SHORTCUT=<enabled>
AUTOSOFTWAREUPDATE=<disabled>
COMPONENTDOWNLOAD=<enabled>
DATACOLLECTION=<disabled>

Example: If you want to automatically install with serial number and re-enable desktop shortcut & automatic updates

 

<vmware-lite>.msi SERIALNUMBER=12345-12345-12345-12345-12345 DESKTOP_SHORTCUT=1 AUTOSOFTWAREUPDATE=1 /qn

Optional: Version 11 no longer supports x86 so for 32 bit OS's you need to use version 10: http://adf.ly/1713566/vmwareliteold

Or you may prefer VirtualBox Lite

MD5: 4680873df8556af936fae393e471fbe2

Size: 70.3 MB

Thanks Rick!

 

Cheers and Regards

Let me know if it works fine or if anything is broken

I've asked a couple of more experienced buddies of mine to check it out.  I'll let you know when I hear back.

 

Cheers and Regards

Updated, fixed iso tools uninstall (it was broken because I had added "Lite" to the ProductName MSI property)

Thank's Ricardo, I will try...    one question, what have you removed ...?

Regards... ;-)

VMware Tray, VIX, OVF, Visual Studio, VMware Converter redist, vc runtimes redist, all Tools exept Windows iso, Japanese and German Thin Print localizations, Japanese EULA & help files and a few other misc files (I was too tired to make a list yesterday, but I will soon)

Fantastic, Rick!  I'm looking forward to giving it a test drive later this week.

OK seems there may be a problem with me removing SSL, I thought if you had them installed there would be no problem (added them back)

For now, works perfect... :cap:

Regards... ;-)

Edited June 18, 201311 yr by alfreire

Updated SFX and installer. There is no longer need to repack the installer (but you still have the option,) you can now use SERIALNUMBER and other commands to change the default installer behavior. Also added /nsr switch a.k.a. /noSilentReboot to stop reboot during silent install (just in case)

works purfect here tooo

Thanks again... ;-)

Rick is as always doing a great work =)

Thanks

Thanks Rick, any possibility you could make a tutorial on how to make VMWare lite version ?  I thought there was one on the forum for older versions but I can't seem to find it.

thanks Rick appreciated the hard work

Perfect job

Thanks @rick

VMware Workstation 10.0.1 Build 1379776 is released

Gracias, amigo... ;-)

hey rick.., d0nt know why, but your sfx maker is n0t creating a w0rking setup f0r me, i just properly foll0wed the steps and inserted the serial number in the bootstrap.lua and hide the serial input dialog of setup by replacing the 0 with 1, and created the final setup, but when i run this setup, nothing happens but the following path is opened: 

C:\Windows\System32\Setup

., i d0nt know whats wr0ng with this, the pr0cedure is simple and i'm pretty sure that i'm not d0ing anything wr0ng..

plx heLp...!!

  :help:

Edited January 25, 201411 yr by NaJeEb303

What version of 7zip did you use to re-compress and what format? (LZMA/LZMA2)

You could try adding .exe to the setup command in config.txt

 

RunProgram="setup.exe /T \"%%T\\install\" /S \"%%T\" /v "AutoInstall="setup.exe /T \"%%T\\install\" /S \"%%T\" /s /nsr /v "

What version of 7zip did you use to re-compress and what format? (LZMA/LZMA2)

You could try adding .exe to the setup command in config.txt

 

RunProgram="setup.exe /T \"%%T\\install\" /S \"%%T\" /v "AutoInstall="setup.exe /T \"%%T\\install\" /S \"%%T\" /s /nsr /v "

i used the latest version of 7-zip (9.20) and used the LZMA format..!!

I think whats going on is the sfx cannot find setup (executable) so its launching the \setup folder in system32 (PATH). Adding .EXE will force it to ONLY look for the executable and it will error if not found.

Make sure you are compressing the files and not the folder with the files

I think whats going on is the sfx cannot find setup (executable) so its launching the \setup folder in system32 (PATH). Adding .EXE will force it to ONLY look for the executable and it will error if not found.

Make sure you are compressing the files and not the folder with the files

thanx rick.., i was actually compressing the folder with the files.., now it w0rked after compressing the files.., and i was already in doubt with that...!!

thanx..!!

VMware Workstation 10.0.2 Build 1744117 is out