SignalExpress 2011 will not install on Server 2008 R2 64bit VM

[nmuleski]

I am trying to install the NI Developer Suite 2011 on a Server 2008 R2 VM, 64 bit.

Everything installed fine except SignalExpress.  It gave me these errors 

The "NI-DIM 1.11.0f0 for 64 Bit Windows" installation has failed with the following errors:

Error 1722.  There is a problem with this Windows Installer package.  A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected.  

and also,

The "NI-ORB 1.9.3f0 for 64 Bit Windows" installation has failed with the following errors:

Error 1722.  There is a problem with this Windows Installer package.  A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. 

I find this in the event viewer:

Product: NI-DIM 1.11.0f0 for 64 Bit Windows -- Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package.  A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. 

Action nidim64_OCM_Install.445465EF_1891_447B_B8B3_4D3592D22EFE, location C:\Windows\Installer\MSI7287.tmp, command: /x64 /file "C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\Shared\niorb\nidima64.ocm"

and for the other installation error:

Product: NI-ORB 1.9.3f0 for 64 Bit Windows -- Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package.  A program run as part of the setup did not finish as

expected. 

Action niorb_OCM_Install64.A5AB92D7_BBDB_4341_9147_540BE7578AD6, location C:\Windows\Installer\MSI8746.tmp, command: /x64 /file "C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\Shared\niorb\niorbAdd64.ocm"

[nmuleski]

Things I have tried:

-Turning off Windows Firewall service 

-Turning off WIndows Defender (we have no antivirus installed on this server)

-Giving Administrator full control to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry hive

-Making sure installation directory isn't read-only

-Restart, reinstall...

Anybody have any ideas??

[Danny_Funk]

nmuleski,

Your running into driver issues on this virtual machine because SignalExpress is basically just a GUI for the hardware drivers. Your users wouldn't be able to get SignalExpress to work on a Virtual Machine because the hardware layer communication can't be passed through. If your users need to use SignalExpress they will have to install it locally on their machines.

Regards,

Danny F

[nmuleski]

Good to know, didn't read this in the documentation anywhere though?

Also, I managed to install Signal Express by using msconfig to boot into selective startup mode.  I haven't had a chance to use it or any of the other software in the NI suite yet, but will be late this week or early next week.  Sounds like I might run into some issues.  I'll post here with my results.