Recently I've been reviving two installations, Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP SP3 (both czech versions), when I found out I am unable to install the latest VMWare tools.
Both systems were running the tools perfectly fine on older version of VMWare (probably 7 or 8) but updating to the latest tools on VMWare Workstation 12.1 failed. When the installation is almost done, the program starts to "roll back actions" and then says that the installation ended up prematurely. Same on 2000 and XP, but on Win2k there is an additional error regarding Think printer driver (but when I click continue on it, the installation continues "fine").
I have tried to reinstall Win2k multiple times, but I am always ending up in the same problem (I tried to install both before and after applying all updates), except for the English localization where the tools installed properly. Now I don't really understand why this don't work on Czech locale but works fine on the English one, since it has always been working on Czech too for many years.
Interestingly, the last versions that I found installable is 8.6.16-3054402 and 8.4.6 build385536 (quite an old old).
I've come across this KB article that appear to describe my problem, but according to it, it should have been fixed long time ago:
This is the log I found in the temp folder on Windows 2000 after trying to upgrade from the version named above:
http://pastebin.com/riWPa54G
Also, it is extremely disappointing that a product of such quality lacks 3D acceleration on Windows 95 and Windows 98 systems.
Edit: I have downgraded to VMWare Workstation 10.0.7 and I was able to install the tools on both systems. This means that it broke either in 11x or 12x branch. I must admit, it is very annoying thought.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.