Software Deployment

if u (you) look in ur (your) user profile in the appdata folder, u (you) should find a vmware preferences.ini. Editing this file should get u (you) the desired result & u (you) can search for appropos properties or ini entries in the MSI:

For example:

[font="courier new"]pref.eula.0.appName = "VMware Workstation" (in ur case Player)
pref.eula.0.buildNumber = "56455"
pref.eula.size = "1"
pref.autoFitFullScreen = "fitHostToGuest"
[font="courier new"]webUpdate.checkLast = "1201098682"
[font="courier new"]
[:)] (edited so as not to offend vbscab's sensibilities)

I think it's been mentioned before but it's worth repeating that, since this forum (and site) is not exclusively UK-based, we avoid text-speak. I imagine it's problematic enough for non-English speakers to decipher the responses to posts without having to try and work out what 'ur' means.

ORIGINAL: kiptek

if u (you) look in ur (your) user profile in the appdata folder, u (you) should find a vmware preferences.ini. Editing this file should get u (you) the desired result & u (you) can search for appropos properties or ini entries in the MSI:

For example:

[font="courier new"]pref.eula.0.appName = "VMware Workstation" (in ur case Player)
pref.eula.0.buildNumber = "56455"
pref.eula.size = "1"
pref.autoFitFullScreen = "fitHostToGuest"
[font="courier new"]webUpdate.checkLast = "1201098682"
[font="courier new"]
[:)] (edited so as not to offend vbscab's sensibilities)


I guess i can find this file only after i open for the first time vmplayer right?

ORIGINAL: jmpouliot
I guess i can find this file only after i open for the first time vmplayer right? No. Just create an INI to suit your requirement and deploy it in your package. Don't use the INIFile table for this: it's not in proper INi format. Create it as a text file and add it to your project.

Kiptek's example doesn't *actually* show you what you need to change. However, this link http://sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-preferences-ini.html which was posted in response to your post on the VMWare forum http://communities.vmware.com/thread/123900?tstart=15 *does* contain that information, i.e.

[font="courier new"]webUpdate.lastCheck.status = "done_updates"
webUpdate.checkPeriod = "manual"

ORIGINAL: kiptek
[:)] (edited so as not to offend vbscab's sensibilities)
In fact, you have simply made the post marginally more confusing for a non-English speaker.

but where should i copy the file during the deployment to be effective for all users? because in my user profile - appdata folder, i can't find a vmware preference.ini........

No. Just create an INI to suit your requirement and deploy it in your package. Don't use the INIFile table for this: it's not in proper INi format. Create it as a text file and add it to your project. In one of the responses to your VMWare forum post, you are directed to use the folder "..\user\application data\vmware".

So, create the file and add it to your project, into 'Windows\Profiles\Application Data\VMWare'. That folder should be resolved at install-time to [%USERPROFILE]\Application Data\VMWare, thus installing to the currently logged-in user's profile.

If i want to copy the file for all users who use vmplayer on the computer... should i copy the preferences.ini to "allusers\application data\vmware" ?

ORIGINAL: VBScab

No. Just create an INI to suit your requirement and deploy it in your package. Don't use the INIFile table for this: it's not in proper INi format. Create it as a text file and add it to your project. In one of the responses to your VMWare forum post, you are directed to use the folder "..\user\application data\vmware".

So, create the file and add it to your project, into 'Windows\Profiles\Application Data\VMWare'. That folder should be resolved at install-time to [%USERPROFILE]\Application Data\VMWare, thus installing to the currently logged-in user's profile.

IIRC, VMWare wants an individual file, since individual users could choose different options (you KNOW how users are...) so I'd stick with using the user profile folder.

i am still unable to disable the webupdate

are you sure if i put this code in the preferences.ini it will work?

webUpdate.lastCheck.status = "done_updates"
webUpdate.checkPeriod = "manual"

because for me it doesn't work, it works only for the EULA.

Best regards

Have you tried running the app with ProcMon running alongside, so that you can *see* what the player is doing, file- and registry-wise?

I just tried the procmon and i saw vmplayer was going to write in the preferences.ini of the the app data folder...

he wrotes those lines when i disabled the webupdate:

webUpdate.checkLast = "1205256737"
webUpdate.lastCheck.status = "done_updates"
pref.vmplayer.webUpdateOnStartup = "FALSE"

then i copied those lines and i put it in my preferences.ini

now i think the problem is to find the right manner to copy the preferences.ini in the right folder. because i want all users who use the machine to use the preferences.ini file that i created.

ORIGINAL: jmpouliot
now i think the problem is to find the right manner to copy the preferences.ini in the right folder. because i want all users who use the machine to use the preferences.ini file that i created. You need to run the install with a verbose log to see what the properties involved are being set to. Using your original command line as a template:

VMware-player-2.0.1-55017.exe /s /v"/qn ADDLOCAL=ALL ALLUSERS=1 REBOOT=ReallySuppress" /l*v "%systemroot%\temp\deploiement\VMWare\VMWare Player 2.0\Installation.log"

Thanks for the help VBScab, I finally found a way to create the folder "Vmware" in application data of each user of the computer.

I used "Active Setup" in the registry key.