Get rid of “Please wait while the installer finishes determining your disk requirements” message while installing software on a VM (VPC, WIndows XP mode or Hyper-V)

Already prepared hundreds of virtual images for different virtualization environments, installed thousands of software packages – I’ve encountered today a very strange problem. Trying to install SSLDiag on a W2K8 VM, I’ve got a warning dialog and cannot continue:

The solution is (at least, it helped me) described here:

http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/harold/archive/2009/01/14/windows-installer-doesn-t-finish-determining-disk-space-requirements.aspx

1. Copy the MSI package down to a local folder.
2. Open elevated console (administrator privileges) and navigate to this folder.
3. Launch following command:
   msiexec /package <Package name> /qr

Enjoy!