Thanks dbasabe. However I think i am lost a bit. Could not find any "vmware" binary per se!

Here is what my command prompt shows!

$ whereis vmware

vmware: /etc/vmware /usr/lib/vmware /usr/share/man/man4/vmware.4.gz                            <- the first two are directories, not a binary!

Sorry if i am missing on something. But after trying to look into those folders, the one highlighted below looks closest to what you are referring. Do you reckon it is indeed the case?

ls -lah /usr/lib/vmware/bin/

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Jun 13 15:02 .

drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4.0K Jun 17 12:58 ..

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 783K Jun 13 15:01 appLoader

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  22K Jun 13 15:02 fusermount

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  15K Jun 13 15:01 launcher.sh

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  29 Jun 13 15:02 licenseTool -> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 495K Jun 13 15:02 mkisofs

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  29 Jun 13 15:02 thnuclnt -> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  29 Jun 13 15:02 vmplayer -> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  29 Jun 13 15:02 vmware-app-control -> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  29 Jun 13 15:02 vmware-enter-serial -> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  29 Jun 13 15:02 vmware-fuseUI -> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  29 Jun 13 15:01 vmware-gksu -> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  29 Jun 13 15:01 vmware-modconfig -> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  29 Jun 13 15:01 vmware-modconfig-console -> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  29 Jun 13 15:02 vmware-netcfg -> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 7.4M Jun 13 15:02 vmware-remotemks

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  29 Jun 13 15:02 vmware-unity-helper -> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 4.7M Jun 13 15:02 vmware-usbarbitrator

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  29 Jun 13 15:01 vmware-vmblock-fuse -> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader

-rwsr-xr-x  1 root root  20M Jun 13 15:01 vmware-vmx                                                                                                      

-rwsr-xr-x  1 root root  25M Jun 13 15:01 vmware-vmx-debug

-rwsr-xr-x  1 root root  23M Jun 13 15:01 vmware-vmx-stats

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  29 Jun 13 15:02 vmware-zenity -> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader

ps : just for the information, I used the standard .bundle installation provided by vmware, which is :

VMware-Player-7.1.0-2496824.x86_64.bundle