VMware Player 15 on Debian9 can't open a VM, can't edit a VM, can't display the VM name

[ClaudeVMS]

Installed VMware Player on debian 9.4. The server has 2 E2670 XEON processors with 64GB RAM and 2 TB system drive. Swap space is 128GB and is on.

The Graphics driver is NVIDIA 340 and the graphics card is Quattro 2000 series.

Using the Player for noncommercial use to run a Windows 7 pro version with a Python environment to support open source development of the NanoEngineer-1 application.

File->Open a Virtual Machine allows navigation to the vmx file, which is selected and the "open" button is pressed. The file dialog box disappears and the VM is not opened and not displayed

in the VMware Player GUI. The "Home" entry in blue continues to be displayed in the GUI.

In order to run the VM one must use a file browser to navigate to the VM file and tell it to run with VMware Player.  The VM runs correctly, BUT it is impossible to edit its properties and the installation of VMTools fails every time. Since the VM is not displayed in the VMware GUI it is impossible to edit the VM's properties.

The directories and file permissions and ownership are 777 and mike respectively.

Thanks in advance for any insight,

-bruce

[towo2099]

VMware Workstation 15 Player Release Notes

Look under known issues.

[DLR70]

I am encountering the exact same issue under Windows 10 but with Workstation Pro 15.0.1. It worked fine 2 days ago then yesterday couldn't open or even locate any installed VMs, regardless of drive or location. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling VMware and rebooting but to no avail. Searching for Virtual Machines throug Workstations also fails -- it either doesn't find any of the VMs that worked 2 days ago or goes into a perpetual "not responding" cycle looking for them.

Issue seems related to this thread as well:  Can't see VM files in datastore browser

Thanks!