Sometimes thinking is a good thing
While installing VMWare server, I ran into an issue. The installer on several machines failed with an error that:
"Setup has detected VMWare running on this machine. Please power off or suspend all Virtual Machines and close all VMWare applications before attempting to install this product."
I thought it was crazy. This is the first time VMWare is being installed at this site. Then it hit me that I renamed the install file vmware.exe. Conveniently, setup was checking to see if this was running before installing the software.
Doh!