Comment 12 for bug 67460

I've same problem. It seems that the problem is on file permissions:

ls -la /home/sergi/.vmware/preferences
-rw------- 1 root root 2158 2007-05-02 15:09 /home/sergi/.vmware/preferences

I solved the problem with:

 sudo chown sergi:sergi ~/.vmware/preferences

Be careful dont Cut&Paste without changing sergi to your specific user!

I supose that the source of the problem is executing

 sudo vmplayer

As far as I Known, sudo don't change the $HOME variable, then if we changes preferences the file becomes a root file. The solution is not executing vmplayer with sudo or:

 sudo -H vmplayer