further digging led to a large number of pages detailing group and ownership problems with vmplayer/ ware ; implying this is a known vmware bug....among the more interesting
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=2175 chmod-ing vmware directories did not change the root only status of vmplayer...hope this helps. -- VMWare Player only runs with root privileges https://launchpad.net/bugs/67460 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
