After the installation hung the first time (no progress for over an hour), I killed the task.
Rerunning the installer now causes the error:
"The MSI
':\users\%username%\appdata\local\temp\vmware_1378362614\vmwareworkstation_x64.msi' failed"
OS is Windows 8 Pro x64. Previously had 9.0.2 installed without issue.
i7-3930k, 32GB RAM
What now?