Replying to myself here because I can find the usual "edit" option for some reason. Install the TP failed the same way. I post the total of the vmsetup log in which the string error (ERROR) occurs. If VMwar ewants the whole thing let me know.
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20130525030640:ERROR** CBootstrapCmd::RunOperation: Operation 'InstallMSI' failed!
20130525030640:INFO wWinMain:Checking exceptions [26]
20130525030640:INFO wWinMain:Handle error
20130525030640:INFO HandleError: Handling error: [26] lang [1033]
20130525030640:ERROR** HandleError: Encountered fatal error id: 26
20130525030640:ERROR** HandleError: Message: [The MSI 'c:\temp\vmware_1369465478\vmwareworkstation_x64.msi' failed.]
20130525030640:ERROR** DisplayErrorMain: Displaying error message
20130525030640:ERROR** DisplayError Error [The MSI 'c:\temp\vmware_1369465478\vmwareworkstation_x64.msi' failed.]
20130525030640:ERROR** ================================================================================
20130525030640:ERROR** Rolling Back - ops:31
20130525030640:ERROR** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Now I'm not a enginner for VMware but from the above it appears they don't know the reason for the failure themselves (unless perhaps somebody knows what fatal error id:26 means!). I hope I'm wrong though.
I'll installVirtualbox and then enable Hyper-V or whatever. Basically I just will use WS on Linux