If you browse to https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/ with the trailing slash then the links will be resolved correctly, so perhaps the updater is using the incorrect URL. The reason this sometimes starts to work after a couple of days is probably that someone at VMware hacks the web server to handle the incorrect URLs. The update is not working for me at the moment (using a 4.0.4 build-744019 player on Windows 7 with Ubuntu 12.04 vm), so perhaps whoever usually fixes this is on vacation this week. ![]()