When your installing the your VMware product of choice, HCMON is installed as a hardware driver, which is the problem. Windows interprets this as a user adding hardware to the PC and in many environments that is something your operating system security or administrator may not automatically allow. VMInstallHcmon - Failed to install hcmon driver. Cause This issue occurs if the vSphere Client is installed on the same system the VMRC installation is failing on. Aug 18, 2018 Hcmon on October 2, at 3: If the hcmon troubleshooting steps did not resolve your hcmon. SYS files such as hcmon.sys are third-party (eg.VMWare) device drivers or critical system files that come as part of the Windows operating system. Most SYS files allow internal PC hardware or attached hardware, such as a printer, to communicate with third-party software programs (eg. Web browsers, word processors, VM Ware Workstation 3.0 Upgrade) and the operating system (eg.
Good day. I’ve been trying to install VMware Workstation 15 Pro for several days now.
This is my first virtual machine on this computer with Windows 10 Pro operating system. When I try to install, I get the error vmware hcmon driver failed, and the installation is rolled back.
On the Internet they advised:
– installation with administrator rights
– update drivers
– remove the hcmon.sys driver (although I don’t have one)
– install .NET Framework 3.5.1
All of these steps were completed, but the installation was unsuccessful.
Please tell me how to solve this issue.
Thank you so much.