HOWTO: Silently Install the Microsoft VM Without Rebooting

ID: Q233200

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft virtual machine

SUMMARY

Under certain circumstances you may need to install the Microsoft virtual machine (Microsoft VM) without user input or without the forced reboot at the end.

A common situation that requires this functionality is when you create a custom setup program that, in addition to installing an application, needs to upgrade the client's Microsoft VM.

NOTE: The custom setup program must reboot the client's computer or the Microsoft VM computer will not install properly.

MORE INFORMATION

To accomplish this task you must install the Microsoft VM (Msjavx86.exe) with the following command line switches.


msjavx86 /q:a /r:n

The only thing that will be displayed is a window showing which components are being installed during the setup process. The computer will not be rebooted.

Switches

/q:a is quiet admin mode. This skips the disk space and administrative rights checks, both items that could potentially pop up an error dialog box. Using /q alone will allow the possibility of such errors occurring.

/r:n signifies no reboot.

REFERENCES

For the latest Knowledge Base articles and other support information on Visual J++ and the SDK for Java, please see the following pages on the Microsoft Technical Support site:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/visualj/

http://support.microsoft.com/support/java/

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbJavaVM kbSDKJava kbVJ kbGrpJava kbDSupport
Version : WINDOWS:
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto