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Crontab not starting vmware virtual machine via vmrun

I am trying to start vmware virtual machine via crontab. I am using Debian Linux 8.9 and VMware workstation 12.5.7 player.

crontab entry: 30 0 * * 7 vmrun -T player start /home/user_name/virtual/server_1/server_1.vmx

server_1.vmx permissions: -rwxr-xr-x 1 user_name user_name 2647 Avg 22 12:36 server_1.vmx

If I run vmrun command in terminal it works with no problems. The vm starts as it should but when I try to start it with crontab it just doesn't start at all. It never did with previous versions of player as well.

Any suggestions what is the problem here?

Thanks in advance!

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