Vmware Workstation Failed To Install Hcmon Driver Windows 10

| 17-09-2021
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These following steps will show you how to fix VMware installation problem (The MSI Failed).

Stop the 'VMware USB Arbitration Service' and 'VMware Serial Com Redirection Client Service' before installing then just restart them. No need to reboot (tested on Windows 10 latest build, but shouldn't make any difference). Be sure to have Administrative priviledges. I'm trying to install VMware Workstation 15.5.6 on a Windows 10 Enterprise build version 2004. Install of hcmon failed. Files VMware Drivers hcmon Win7 hcmon. Right-click VMware hcmon and click Uninstall. Rename the C: windows system32 drivers hcmon.sys file to hcmon.sys.old. But i can not find hcmon.sys in device manager!!

Step 1:

1) Go to ‘Temp’ directory, located under user (profile folder) who does the installation/uninstallation in his computer.

C:Users(username)AppDataLocalTemp

or just go to 'win+R' type %TEMP% ...

2) Make sure none of the VMware installation or uninstallation process is running. Select and Delete all vmware files and folders in this location.

3) Restart the computer: 'win+R' type shutdown -r -t 0.

Step 2:

After restarting the computer open command prompt and run the following commands.

Vmware Workstation Failed To Install Hcmon Driver Windows 10 64-bit

  • 'win+R' type cmd.

  • Switch to admin: runas /user:(username) cmd enter password to run cmd as admin.

  • Change directory where you have VMware setup:
    cd d:vmware

  • Then lunch installation: VMware-workstation.exe /x /v EULAS_AGREED=1, you should add /v EULAS_AGREED=1 to enable licence agreement.

  • Wait for a while and click next then modify...

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  • Installing vSphere Client 5.1 fails.
  • You see the error:
    Failed to install hcmon

  • The vminst.log file (located in the %TEMP% folder) contains entries similar to:
    inst-build-1060398 : MM/DD/YY 14:25:10 I1:InstallDriver: Installing hcmon driver
    inst-build-1060398 : MM/DD/YY 14:25:10 I1:InstallDriver: Copying files, so stopping any pre-existing service
    inst-build-1060398 : MM/DD/YY 14:25:10 E1:VNLStopService: Could not query service 'hcmon' status: 0x00000003
    inst-build-1060398 : MM/DD/YY 14:25:10 I1:VNLCopyFileToSystemDir: Copying 'C:Program Files (x86)Common FilesVMwareUSBhcmon.sys' to 'C:Windowssystem32drivershcmon.sys'
    inst-build-1060398 : MM/DD/YY 14:25:10 I1:VNLInstallService: Stopping any pre-existing instances of service
    inst-build-1060398 : MM/DD/YY 14:25:10 E1:VNLStopService: Could not query service 'hcmon' status: 0x00000003
    inst-build-1060398 : MM/DD/YY 14:25:10 E1:VNLInstallService: Service 'hcmon' already exists: 0x00000431
    inst-build-1060398 : MM/DD/YY 14:25:10 XX:VNLInstallService: reconfigured existing service
    inst-build-1060398 : MM/DD/YY 14:25:10 I1:InstallDriver: Installed driver hcmon, now starting
    inst-build-1060398 : MM/DD/YY 14:25:10 E1:VNLStartService: Service 'hcmon' could not be started: 0x000000a1
    inst-build-1060398 : MM/DD/YY 14:25:10 E1:VNL_InstallHcmon: Failed to create service for hcmon driver.
    inst-build-1060398 : MM/DD/YY 14:25:10 I1:ParseCommand: operation: successful
    inst-build-1060398 : MM/DD/YY 14:25:10 I1:VNLSpawn64BitVnetlibTask: Done waiting for process, code 0
    inst-build-1060398 : MM/DD/YY 14:25:10 I1:VNLSpawn64BitVnetlibTask: process was not successful
    inst-build-1060398 : MM/DD/YY 14:25:10 I1:InstallDriver: Launched 64-bit process, result FALSE
    inst-build-1060398 : MM/DD/YY 14:25:10 E1:VNL_InstallHcmon: Failed to create service for hcmon driver.
    USBDeviceInstUtil-build-1060398: MM/DD/YY 14:25:10 ERROR: Failed calling VNL_InstallHcmon()
    USBDeviceInstUtil-build-1060398: MM/DD/YY 14:25:10 Freeing library: 1669922816
    USBDeviceInstUtil-build-1060398: MM/DD/YY 14:25:10 ERROR: Failed to install hcmon
    Note: The preceding log excerpts are only examples. Date, time, and environmental variables may vary depending on your environment.