Thanks for the posting! Does it happen just when you launch workstation on Ubuntu14.04 host? We always can see the workstation menu bar (File, Edit, View, VM, Tabs, Help) on the top left corner, so it's really weird.
Are you in full screen mode or console mode when you are running a VM? If in full screen mode, the menu bar will hide automatically on the top of screen. Also if the WS was not in maxium window, can you see the menu bar?
Which WS version are you using? And to get more clue, would you please upload the vmware.log?