[coucou]

@RogueSpear:
Great job, i dreamed for it you did it. TNX!!!
Neverless, i have "0" VBS knowledge and NOT use RunOnceEx. On the other hand, i have mor knwledge of AutoIt, cmd and i use WPI.

How can i use yr installer with WPI??? or,
Can you write a cmd installer???

@muiz:

Quote

http://rapidshare.de...mtools.rar.html

As I understand, yr download is VMwareTools 5.5. Isn't it???
It is possible to use it with the latest VMware 5 version ???

Regards
coucou

[RogueSpear]

@coucou, I've never used WPI before so I can't really be of much assistance there. The point of the script itself is that it will NOT run the installer unless the "computer" is a VMware computer. This is determined by using WMI to read BIOS strings. I suppose if WPI can launch a VBscript then you'd be all set.

[coucou]

RogueSpear, on Nov 10 2005, 03:08 PM, said:

The point of the script itself is that it will NOT run the installer unless the "computer" is a VMware computer. This is determined by using WMI to read BIOS strings.

that's what i understood and that's what I precisely needed!!!

I dpn't know if WPI can launch a VBscript. Then, may you you write a cmd installer???

Regards
koukou

[RogueSpear]

No I can't write a cmd script because the whole process is dependant upon WMI. That's one of the main reasons I started using VBscript for everything.

[coucou]

RogueSpear, on Nov 10 2005, 03:19 PM, said:

No I can't write a cmd script because the whole process is dependant upon WMI. That's one of the main reasons I started using VBscript for everything.

What a pity...

Do you know if VMwareTools 5.5.ISO could be used with the latest VMware 5 version???

coucou

This post has been edited by coucou: 10 November 2005 - 08:43 AM

[coucou]

@RogueSpear:
Do yr VBscript could be launched from cmdlines.txt file as "VMWareTools.vbs" @t-12???

Regards
coucou

[RogueSpear]

No. As stated in the installer description, it can only be run from RunOnceEx. I've tried various methods of getting to install from svcpack.inf and cmdlines.txt, but it won't go. The other problem is that the VBscript won't run from cmdlines.txt because WMI is not yet available.

EDIT: I won't be messing around with VMware 5.5 until it's officially released. I have to many other things to do than to mess with their test code that still has all the debugging turned on.

This post has been edited by RogueSpear: 10 November 2005 - 10:16 AM

[coucou]

Sorry for bothering you agian... I've a last question.

Do yr VBscript could be launched from [GuiRunOnce] section inside Winnt.sif file as

[GuiRunOnce]
command1 = "%SystemDrive%\install\VMWareTools.vbs"

Regards
coucou

[RogueSpear]

It should work from there, though I have not personally tested that method.

[RogueSpear]

@gordo, I have run across the problem you described with FFDShow. I am not experiencing the problems on all computers however, so it's hard to nail down the issue at hand. I have the newest build which is 11112005 and I have what is described as a "stable" build from 08082005. I'm going to pack up both of them and post within the next day or so. With builds of this project coming out on what seems like a daily basis latley, I'm tempted to just pack up the recommended stable build and leave it at that.

[coucou]

RogueSpear, on Nov 10 2005, 03:19 PM, said:

No I can't write a cmd script because the whole process is dependant upon WMI. That's one of the main reasons I started using VBscript for everything.

Hi,

Finally i had success with a cmd file.
In fact, i found a
VMware Command Line Tools where vmchk.exe tool inside (here attached bellow).
When vmchk.exe run from a Command Prompt IN a "VMware Virtual Machine", the message "Runing inside VMWare <version 6>." is displayed.
When vmchk.exe run NOT IN a VMware Virtual Machine, the message "Not runing inside VMWare." is displayed.
I wrote a small script calling vmchk.exe and check if run IN or NOT IN a VMware machine

@echo off 
set vm=Runing inside VMWare <version 6>. 
 
vmchk.exe >chkfile.dat 
for /f "delims=!" %%a in (chkfile.dat) do set check=%%a 
 
If "%check%" == "%vm%" VMwaretools.exe

and here pipe directly to a variable for UA install directly run from a CD

@echo off 
for /f %%a in ('vmchk') do (  
  if "%%a=="Runing inside VMWare <version 6>."  vmtools.exe 
  )

Enjoy
coucou

This post has been edited by coucou: 18 November 2005 - 06:22 AM

[RogueSpear]

Nice find, but I still don't believe you'll get the installer itself to work from svcpack.inf or cmdlines.txt. At least I've never been able to.

[johnik]

Hi! Is it possible to deploy MSN Messenger 7.5 silently through GPO?

[coucou]

RogueSpear, on Nov 18 2005, 01:04 AM, said:

Nice find, but I still don't believe you'll get the installer itself to work from svcpack.inf or cmdlines.txt. At least I've never been able to.

Hi RogueSpear,

I will test it later with cmdlines.txt but I'm 100% sure it will works with [GuiRunOnce].

BTW, just for my Info, I suppose you made VMwareTools 7-zip swittchless installer.
I tried mine here bellow, and when i launch VMwareTools.exe i got the message (StartX, No parameters specified...) here attached image .

;!@Install@!UTF-8!
RunProgram="StartX.exe /WAIT \"msiexec /i VMwareTools.msi /qn-!\""
;!@InstallEnd@!

May you show me your confitg.txt???

Regards
coucou

[RogueSpear]

I stopped using StartX.exe a long time ago in favor of runhiddenconsole.exe. Runnhiddenconsole is much smaller than startx and it doesn't seem to have as many limitations to it.

[coucou]

Ah!!! When i opened yr VMwareTools.exe i found StartX.exe inside and NO trace of runhiddenconsole.exe.

I found runhiddenconsole.exe , there is no comment how to use it with .msi files. I would appreciate to know a template how to use it in cinfig.txt with .msi files.

Regards
coucou

This post has been edited by coucou: 18 November 2005 - 08:09 AM

[RogueSpear]

I'm attaching the program to this post. Here is an example of the config.txt from what I packed last:

;!@Install@!UTF-8!
RunProgram="RunHiddenConsole.exe /w msiexec /i FFDShow20050803.msi /qn"
;!@InstallEnd@!

Much simpler context eh? Also don't forget to UPX your 7z sfx module. What I do is rename the file to 7zSorg.sfx. Use Resource Hacker or whatever you want to change the icon and then UPX it with this command line:

upx -9 -o7zS.sfx 7zSorg.sfx

Then combine it all to make your switchless silent installer:

copy /b 7zS.sfx + config.txt + FFDShow20050803.7z FFDShow20050803.exe

I realize that you may already know some of this, but I thought I'd include a little more for anyone else out there reading the thread.

Attached File(s)

•  RunHiddenConsole.7z (923bytes)
  Number of downloads: 167

This post has been edited by RogueSpear: 18 November 2005 - 08:07 AM

[coucou]

Many TNX

BTW, did you glance my post here above how i pipe directly to a variable for UA install directly run from a CD
coucou

[muiz]

@coucou dont know

[keytotime]

If you look at my guide i use msistub.exe now.