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From: Deborah Testa on 8 Mar 2010 19:22 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
From: Joe Matise on 9 Mar 2010 12:20 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(a)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 >
From: Katy Seib on 9 Mar 2010 13:36 Deborah, I am running SAS 9.2 on my MacBook via VMWare. My machine runs OSX(10.5) and Windows7. Before I had it on Vista through VMWare with the whole thing partitioned into two sides and it was horrible, I got it installed but it Vista crashed constantly if I had OSX running too so I usually just booted into Vista only and was always running out of space. Now the set up is much better and W7 is much better, more reliable. I can run OSX and Windows concurrently through the virtual machine with no problems-to date. I changed the setup in August - I think I upgraded OSX and VMWare at that time too - now it's time for another VMW upgrade but I'm too nervous to do it until my current project is wrapped up. Hope this is useful, let me know if you need more info. Katy On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Deborah Testa <dtesta(a)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 >
From: Jack Hamilton on 9 Mar 2010 15:46
I installed SAS for Windows (9.1.3 and 9.2) on Fusion running Windows XP Pro on a MacBook Pro. That was a while ago, but I don't recall any particular problems after I turned off all the anti-virus stuff. I recently switched from VMWare Fusion to Parallels Desktop, and I'm happier. I had tested both a while back, and VMWare came out ahead, but both Fusion and Parallels have had upgrades since then. VMWare had a booth at the MacWorld Expo earlier this year, and I talked to someone there about upgrading from v2 to v3. She gave me a discount coupon and told me I could use it online to order the upgrade and not have to carry a box around with me for the rest of the day. When I got back to the office, I tried to place the order, and the discount code didn't work. I called and was told that the discount code only worked for new orders, not for upgrades, and they were sorry that I was given wrong information at the show, but, well, tough luck. I decided that it might not be wise to continue doing business with them, so I downloaded the new version of Parallels and converted my VM (that took a while). It seems to work much better. I haven't had any more mysterious freezes (happened a few times a day with Fusion - everything just stopped working. I could usually fix it by suspending and restarting the VM, but that takes time.) I've noticed only two minor problems: the machine runs hotter, and Lotus Notes Sametime Connect doesn't detect that I've moved my mouse. I haven't contacted Parallels about either of those problems. Should we have a SAS/Mac BOF at SASGloF? On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:22 +0000, "Deborah Testa" <dtesta(a)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 > -- Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio. Jack Hamilton Sacramento, California jfh(a)alumni.stanford.org |