Horizon View Agent Install – The system must be rebooted before installation can continue

By | August 27, 2015

I was messing around with Horizon View, everything was going well until I got to a point where I wanted to install the Horizon View agent.

I kept geting this error: “The system must be rebooted before installation can continue”

Google kept bringing me back to this KB:

Unfortunately, none of the steps in the KB resolved my issue.

I spent a few hours on this when I decided to try something else.

I had a “regular” account that I used to logon and an “admin” account that I used to run the installer as an administrator. My thought was to logon as the “admin” account so that I didn’t have to do the ‘run as’. Maybe it was getting confused being run as a different user than the logged on one?

Once I logged in as admin and ran the installer, BAM no  problems. The littles things always end up being the issue.

4 thoughts on “Horizon View Agent Install – The system must be rebooted before installation can continue

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  2. Morten Werner Forsbring

    Hi.

    Did you report this as a bug to VMware? I guess the same issue is blocking our scripted / automated agent install..

    – Werner

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    1. Chris Post author

      I did not submit a SR, this was a one-time install using some eval vExpert licenses, so I didn’t think much about it after I figured out how to get it installed.

      Reply
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