The downloaded VMware software installer fails to open

Products

• VMware Desktop Hypervisor

Issue/Introduction

Unable to install VMware Fusion with the below symptoms,

• You cannot open the downloaded Fusion or Workstation installer file
• You see one of these errors:
  
  • There is no default application specified to open the document VMware-Fusion-3.1.1-282344.
  • syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
    
• The downloaded file is several hundred bytes in size
• The downloaded file does not have an extension

Environment

VMware Fusion

Resolution

This issue occurs because the download was incomplete.

 

To verify that the downloaded file is complete and correct, ensure that the file:

• has a .dmg extension.
• has a size and MD5 sum that match the information on the file download page.