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