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I have installed "Vmplayer" on my ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS.

I have created 3 virtual machines on the vmplayer but now after ubuntu update I am having problem while opening a virtual machine in vmplayer.

When I start vmplayer I get the vmplayer window with following options:

  • create new virtual machine

  • open virtual machines

  • Upgrade

  • Help

But whenever I go to "open a virtual machine" and select a virtual machine nothing happens.Vmplayer does not open that virtual machine. It just takes me back to home screen.

I tried running vmplayer with sudo and then I was able to open virtual machines. But earlier sudo rights were not needed.

What is happening? How do I solve this problem? I had a look at /tmp/vmware-<user>/logs but I didn't find any error!

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Finally found answer to my question.

I don't know but somehow the permissions of the ~/vmware (where virtual machines are stored) directory were changed and hence the problem.

The trick helped me is:

sudo chmod 755 -R ~/vmware

sudo chown -R <user>:<user> ~/vmware

Hope this helps!

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