Use VMware Workstation installer repair command to solve some installation issues on windows host

Products

• VMware Desktop Hypervisor

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
If users hit following installation issues, try VMware Workstation installer repair command to fix:

1. After install VMware Workstation Pro, there is no VMnet1/VMnet8 virtual adapter created on host and VM's network can not work well.
2. The VMware Bridge Protocol can not be uninstalled on host's Ethernet properties.
3. Service 'VMware Authorization Service' (VMAuthdService) failed to start when upgrade/install VMware Workstation Pro.
4. Can not un-install VMware Workstation clearly, the files under the installation folder is kept after un-installation.

Environment

VMware Workstation Pro 15.x (Windows)
VMware Workstation Pro 15.x (Linux)

Resolution

This is a known issue. Currently, there is no resolution.

To resolve this issue,

1. Uninstall VMware Workstation Pro on windows host.
2. Download VMware Workstation Pro installer binary VMware-workstation-full-15.0.0-xxxxxx.exe to local host.
3. Open windows command line as Administrator and run "./VMware-workstation-full-15.0.0-xxxxxx.exe /r".
4. Reboot the host and try to install VMware Workstation Pro.