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Solution to SAS 9.2 Installer Crashing on Windows 7 on VMWare Fusion
When installing SAS on Windows 7, typically you'd right-click on setup.exe and choose Run as Administrator, watch the SAS Deployment Wizard come up and the blue progress bar start moving. But! Then Windows 7 suddenly says "Console Window Host has stopped working." and offers to close the program. The Deployment Wizard may run for a while longer and silently disappear.
The entry in the Windows Application Log is not much help; it just says "Event 1000, Application Error: Faulting application name: conhost.exe".
The reason this is happening is that the SAS installer is trying to write to a temp file. Because you have VMWare Fusion set up to share folders between the Mac and the PC, when the installer tries to write a log file VMWare Fusion denies it, and the installer freaks out and dies.
The solution is:
- Shut down your virtual machine.
- Turn off "Share folders on your Mac" in the virtual machine settings.
- Start your virtual machine back up.
- Run the installer with no problems.
- Turn sharing back on again once SAS is installed.
Reference:
http://www.mathkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/sas/47604/SAS-Mac-VMWare-Fusion
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Installer crashing with shared folders disabled
Hi,
I'm trying toinstall SAS 9.2 on a Mac running 10.6.8 with VMWare Fusion 3.1.3 and have disabled Shared folders and it still will not install. Conhost.exe errors. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Scott