Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:20:03 -0600
Reply-To: Joe Matise <snoopy369@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Joe Matise <snoopy369@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: SAS, Mac & VMWare Fusion
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I've tested it in Parallels, but not VMWare Fusion. In Parallels, 9.2 works
fine on Windows 7 with no difficulty versus a normal Win7 installation.
I would venture to guess this could be either a VMWare issue with its
integration (are you doing this from Mac OS desktop, or are you doing this
in a Windows window?) or possibly an issue of folder references gone bad,
which if you were using Win7 might be fixable by running it in compatibility
mode. Either way, it's apparently getting confused as to where it ought to
be looking for the user documents folder. In WinXP that's not normally a
problem, so I would probably blame VMWare integration... Can you open a
command window and see what the default environment variables are set as
(specifically the ones that define the location of your My Documents and
other user folders, like %USERPROFILE% and %APPDATA% if I recall correctly
(the latter is the variable pointing to the master folder above the one
you're referring to). If they're set properly in CMD, then you might try
calling e:\..\setup.exe from there?
-Joe
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Deborah Testa <dtesta@sevenofninesystems.com
> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I would be interested in hearing if anyone has successfully installed
> SAS 9.2 on a VMWare Fusion virtual machine. Since SAS and VMWare are
> partners, it must be possible. But I've had nothing but problems
> installing SAS.
>
>
>
> I've got a MacBook Pro that runs VMWare Fusion. I have three virtual
> machines: a Windows XP Pro, a Windows 7 32-bit, and a Windows 7 64 bit.
> I also have an external USB drive that has a SAS 9.2 TS2M0 Software
> Depot. I've successfully installed SAS from the software depot on a
> "regular" Windows computer, and am now trying to use the depot to
> install SAS on the Windows XP Pro virtual machine on my Mac.
>
>
>
> I can see the external hard drive from the Windows vm Windows Explorer,
> and can navigate to the depot and find setup.exe. When I double-click
> on it, I get the splash screen for a few seconds, and then it shuts down
> without installing anything. When I check bootstrap.log to find out
> what happened, I find this:
>
>
>
> INFO:
>
> ExeProc::ExeandDisplay::cmd="..\..\products\javaruntime__92170__win__xx__sp0__1\bin\java"
> -Xmx512M -jar deploywiz\setup.jar -templocation
> "C:\DOCUME~1\Deborah\LOCALS~1\Temp\_setup29462" -startuplocation
> "E:\DownloadedSoftware\SAS9.2SoftwareDepot"
>
> Fri Mar 05 09:32:38 2010
>
> ERROR: ExeProc::ReadFromPipe=Standard output
>
> Could not create directory: \\vmware-host\Shared Folders\Local
> Settings\Application Data\SAS\SASDeploymentWizard\9.2
>
>
>
> java.io.IOException: Couldn't get lock for \\vmware-host\Shared
> Folders\SDW_%u.log
>
>
>
> The log is right: although I can see \\vmware-host\Shared
> <file:///\\vmware-host\Shared> Folders in Windows Explorer, I can't
> create a folder there. But I'm not even sure why the SAS installation
> procedure is looking there. If it just stayed on the C: drive,
> everything should be fine.
>
>
>
> If anyone has been down this road before and has suggestions, I would
> love to hear them.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
>
>
>
> Deborah
>
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