My vmware player does not show gest machines in the library. My troubleshooting suggests its a permissions error on whereever the library data is stored.
When I try to open a guest machine the player does not show the guest in the inventory pane of the player. However I can run vmplayer /path/to/machine.vmx and the machine will open execute properly.
When I run vmware player as root (or even a regular user) it works correctly - so it seems clearly tied to my user account. I have tried rm -rf ~/.vmware and rerunning the player but I get the same behavior.
The problem happens with all guest machines - so it does not appear to be related to anything about a machine itself.
Does anyone know where vmware player stores the inventory data? Nothing in the ~/.vmware directory seems to be related to this, but the library data must be persisted somewhere. Where is this file?I'm running vmware player 3.1.3 build-324285 on Ubuntu Linux 2.6.31-22-generic-pae Ubuntu 9.10.
Worked for me on Linux Mint Debian
OS: LMDE 3 Cindy
Cinnamon: 3.8.9
Kernel: 4.9.0-8-amd64
VMware® Workstation 15 Player 15.0.0 build-10134415
In Mint turning the option to remember recent files and not deleting old files worked for me as well, but I find that a poor solution for a stand alone app. If I wanted to remember old files I opened up, I would have left that on. VMWare Player shouldn't use that setting for its internal list. It should be standalone and separate.
@dsy72 wrote:
This behavior still exists in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and VMware Player 7.1.2. The file /home/user/.local/share/recently-used.xbel will be emptied from time to time and every time you log out, thus the library / list of VMs will be lost.
This only happens if you have deactivated 'Record file & application usage' in Ubuntu System Settings 'All Settings / Security & Privacy / Files & Applications'.
If you activate 'Record file & application usage' your list of VMs will not be lost anymore, as the file 'recently-used.xbel' will no longer be emptied. I'm actually very happy to have discovered this, because before I had to manually restore the list of VMs dozens of time.
dsy72, you are a hero... It is still a problem on Linux Mint 21.3, vm Player 17.5, but it works!
In the meantime, it's a shame, that bug still exists, since the OP happened 13(!) years ago...wow