If you get error “Failed to install the hcmon driver” during installing the VMware products (vSphere, Remote Console, etc.), don’t worry. You can fix the problem with one of the solutions in this article. What is the HCMON driver? HCMON driver is a virtual USB driver. The following device drivers can be included with VMware Tools. SVGA driver This virtual driver enables 32-bit displays, high display resolution, and faster graphics performance. When you install VMware Tools, a virtual SVGA driver replaces the default VGA driver, which allows for only 640 X 480 resolution and 16-color graphics. Windows Server; Contact; Fix: VMRC Installation Windows 10 Pro error: failed to install the hcmon driver Published by Tyler Woods on January 31. Windows 8.1; Windows 8; Windows 10; VMware Remote Console is also compatible with the following Mac host operating systems: Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Apple OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) Apple OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) Apple OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) Installation Notes for This Release. Read the following documentation for guidance about installing.
- Vmware Failed To Install The Hcmon Driver Windows 10 32-bit
- Vmware Failed To Install The Hcmon Driver Windows 10 64-bit
- Vmware Remote Console Failed To Install Hcmon Driver Windows 10
- Vmware Client Failed To Install Hcmon Driver Windows 10
In vSphere 6.5 and some simultaneous updates to earlier versions, VMware moved away from NPAPI (since Google is set on killing it) and instead introduced two new consoles, the HTML5 browser console which is quite frankly horrible (especially without VMTools), as well as a new “thick” console that installs on the client machine called VMware Remote Console. This is a welcome development, as moving away from NPAPI can’t come a day too soon, and anything that isn’t Flash based is always nice.
There’s only one problem, the install frequently fails on Windows 10.
The error VMRC throws is quite cryptic as well; “Failed to install hcmon driver”. This is usually because the VMRC installer fails to play nicely with UAC in Windows, and for some reason doesn’t manage to get the required permissions from the OS to install the hcmon driver (which seems to be a virtual USB something that you’ll probably never need anyway). The workaround is quite simple, give it the required permissions from the get-go, so that it can bypass UAC altogether. The normal way to do this would be to right-click the installer and select “Run as Administrator”. However, I’ve not managed to get this to work on any machine I’ve tried it on.
The way that works on the other hand that I’ve found, is to open up an elevated PowerShell prompt and call the installer from there.
Navigate to the directory where you downloaded the VMRC installer, type in (and tab-complete) the name of the installation package, and press enter. After this, the install should continue smoothly.
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Vmware Failed To Install The Hcmon Driver Windows 10 32-bit
Trying to install the VMware Remote Console software on a new Windows 10 computer consistently resulted in the error message ‘Failed to install the hcmon driver.’
Vmware Failed To Install The Hcmon Driver Windows 10 64-bit
After several attempts with minor troubleshooting changes (fresh reboot, background processes killed), I still could not install the software. Searching for the error message, resulted in a knowledge base article from VMware that recommended uninstalling vSphere client instances before installing the VMRC. I did not have the vSphere client installed and I received the message on multiple computers.
Vmware Remote Console Failed To Install Hcmon Driver Windows 10
Finally, I attempted another workaround – elevating command prompt. I copied the .msi installer locally and ran command prompt as administrator. I then navigated the CMD window to my installer.
Vmware Client Failed To Install Hcmon Driver Windows 10
With that command, the installation wizard again launched and it was able to proceed through to completion without receiving the hcmon driver error.