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Can employers access any information from your personal pc when using VMWare Horizons Client? Vm constantly hits 100% cpu utilization, any way to set a max limit it can get to? Vsphere client 5.5 fails to install the hcmon driver (.SOLVED.). VMware Remote Console on Windows 10 gives ‘Failed to install the hcmon driver’. I did not have the vSphere client installed and I received the message on.

1. Vmware Client Failed To Install Hcmon Driver Windows 10 32-bit
2. Vmware Client Failed To Install Hcmon Driver Windows 10 64-bit
3. Vmware Client Failed To Install Hcmon Driver Windows 10 Pro

Host Environment:
OS: Windows 10

Application Installed:

VMware Client Version: 15.5.1.15018445

We have developed an application in ruby that acts as wrapper for VIX library to do action on VMX.

After upgrading VMware Workstation to 15.5.1, getting vix handler failed with error code 2202.

How to calling VIX:

job_handle = VixHost_Connect(

:VIX_API_VERSION,

:VIX_SERVICEPROVIDER_VMWARE_WORKSTATION,

Vmware Client Failed To Install Hcmon Driver Windows 10 32-bit

”, 0, ”, ”, 0,

:VIX_INVALID_HANDLE,

nil,

nil)

VIX_API_VERSION = -1
VIX_SERVICEPROVIDER_VMWARE_WORKSTATION = 3

Please add your thoughts.

I tried the install the most recent version of VMRC which can be found here and I got this error message during the installation:

I found the KB2130850 which mentioned that I should uninstall all vSphere Client instances, install VMRC and reinstall all vSphere Client instances. Unfortunately this was not the solution. I have then uninstalled the Horizon View Client too to be on the safe side. Again this was also not the solution.

I have then checked the vminst.log which can be found in the %TEMP% folder and saw the following error messages:

VNLCopyFileToSystemDir: Copying ‘C:Program Files (x86)Common FilesVMwareUSBhcmon.sys’ to ‘C:Windowssystem32drivershcmon.sys’
VNLGetLocalizedString: Failed to allocate a localized string 0x00000020: 317
VNLCopyFileToSystemDir: Failed to copy file: “C:Windowssystem32drivershcmon.sys”. (null) [32]
VNL_InstallHcmon: Failed to create service for hcmon driver.

This looked like that there are not sufficient permissions to copy the hcmon.sys to the destination folder, although the installer told me that he is using elevated permissions:

Because you haven’t “Run as Administrator” for msi packages I used an elevated cmd prompt to start the msi with Administrator permissions and lo and behold VMRC was installed without problems. There are 2 possibilities from my point of view why this happened.

1. The elevation process of setups was little bit changed in Windows 10
2. The hcmon.sys file was already there and the elevated permission was to less to replace it.

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

I did a quick check about these possibilities and it was 2. When there is an existing hcmon.sys (from vSphere Client), VMRC installer can’t replace it even if the installer gets elevated for installation. The only possibility was to start the installer as Administrator to get the hcmon.sys in the C:WindowsSystem32 directory replaced.

Vmware Client Failed To Install Hcmon Driver Windows 10 Pro