Installing VMware Tools fails with “internal error 2203″
March 27th, 2008
When updating VMware Tools the setup constantly bailed out without a decent error. So I decided to un-install the Tools and install them again. Un-installing went smooth but when installing it again I ended up with the error “internal error 2203″. After googling this error the Citrix website gave me the solution, check your tmp and temp environment variables. Indeed both variables pointed out to the CD-Rom player for some strange reason. I changed it to c:\temp and the installation of VMware Tools went smooth…
March 28th, 2008 at 13:31
Wow, I had not came across that, but played around with it this morning and was able to re-create it on my test box.
Good to know where you are planning on doing hundreds
March 28th, 2008 at 13:47
Installing VMware Tools fails with “internal error 2203″…
Duncan over at Yellow Bricks posted an issue where Installing VMware tools will fail due to an environmental setting mis-pointing the temp directory to the CD-ROM. I tested this only test box at home and was able to recreate the issue. via Yellow…
March 31st, 2008 at 11:10
Just curious, but did you ever figure out why or how the variables were changed to the cdrom?
March 31st, 2008 at 11:30
No clue, i did not initially install this server. So it might just be a mistake by the original engineer.