I just installed Vmware Workstation 5.5.3 on Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10) and am having a permissions problem. I can run it wth sudo but I followed exactly the same steps I did on my other laptop, but on this one I get the following error from the icon:

Could not launch menu item: Failed to execute child process "vmware" (Permission Denied)

and this error from commandline:

bash: /usr/bin/vmware: Permission Denied

It works fine if I use sudo vmware from the commandline or if I edit the graphical icon to be gksudo vmware. I do not have to do this on my other Edgy Eft laptop.

I've seen various mention of this error in my forum searches but no one got it resolved that I can find. I uninstalled/reinstalled about 10 times and nothing I have tried has fixed it. I cleared leftover folders between each uninstall/reinstall. And each and every time, including the first, I took all defaults for the install locations.