I am installing on windows 7. The vmware workstation version is 9.0.2-1031769.
Installation proceeds as expected until about 70% when it fails with the following error:
The MSI '' failed.
I have followed every single step on this supposed fix except that I was not able to delete a coupled of files in the temp directory but I do not think they are related to vmware. And it still didn't work.
Next I deleted every single reference to vmware in the registry also to no avail.
Best Answer
Steps to solve this problem:
Start Menu ->My Computer ->right click ->Properties ->Advance system setting ->Advance -> Environment variable
now in top user you can find temp and tmp in user variables
now click on edit and save its variable value on notepad.Do it for both temp
create a folder in c: drive as tmp. Now copy the location c:/tmp
Replace variable value to c:/tmp for both Temp and Tmp
now click on ok and restart your system.
Now try to install VMWare and it will 100% working for me. Don't forget to replace the variable value of Temp and Tmp to url which you save on notepad.