Tuesday, 24 July 2007

vmware-mks.cab workaround

VMware mks

When you are running the Virtual Machine MKS Client on a system that never visited Web Access than the MKS Client won’t start. This problem is caused by the absence of the ActiveX Control that is used by the MKS Client. I created a workaround for this problem. Download vmware-mks.cab, unpack the files, right click the quickmksax.inf and choose install. After this short procedure the Virtual Machine MKS Client will function correctly.

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Hey where did you get this vmware-mks.cab. Is it from the ESX Install? I want to know what the licensing is? Is it freely redistributable ? Thanks in advance

#1 Chang on 2007-07-25 10:43 (Reply)

The vmware-mks.cab is part of Virtual Center and you can also find this file on an ESX server.I don’t know if this file is freely distributable, but I can’t think of any reason why it shouldn’t be.

#1.1 Anonymous on 2007-07-25 11:12 (Reply)

I found running the .inf file would work but the activex control still wasn't installed. I ended up creating a 5 line HTML file to have the browser download and install the plugin like normal, that worked fine.

Basically create a file with the following and put it in the same dir as the .cab file. Then open the html file with IE and install:

vmware-mks.html follows:

[html]
[body]
[object id='mks' classid='CLSID:DC7D77DA-E1AC-4D40-930B-B87B2954E034' codebase="vmware-mks.cab#version=2,0,1,0" width="100%" height="100%"][/object]
[/body]
[/html]

sorry about the square brackets otherwise I couldn't submit the comment

#2 Jason on 2007-08-06 07:07 (Reply)

all you need to do actually is type regsvr32 quickmksAx.dll in the folder you have the file.. this way you don't have to run any installer scripts or anything else... also i am pretty sure this is not freely distributable ... it is definitely proprietary vmware code!

#3 iLuvMks on 2008-03-13 09:57 (Reply)

Jason,

Thanks for posting your code for the html file, that work for me as well.

Regards,

Carlos

#4 Carlos Taveras (Homepage) on 2009-04-21 22:31 (Reply)

I tried various times and was not successfull until a fresh look and attempt today. Thank you all for your posts and efforts, greatly appreciated! This is what worked for me:

1. Downloaded and unpacked vmware-mks to vmware-mks folder
2. created vmware-mks.html file using notepad (don't use MS word)
3. Opened command prompt, cd to the unpacked vmware-mks folder and registered ActiveX dll
ex. C:\downloads\workshare Jul2009\vmware-mks>regsvr32 quickMksAx.dll
4. Then double clicked on teh vmware-mks.html file, allowed contect and that was it, worked.
note: I did add our https address to the console to the local intranet sites in IE.
note: Got this working in both IE7 and IE8 (initially it crashed IE 8, then I restarted, added to Local Intranet sites, and it worked fine)

Cheers,
-Dave

#5 David Stubblefield (Homepage) on 2009-07-24 21:29 (Reply)

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