Vmware Player does not start (NOT_IMPLEMENTED)

Question

Since yesterday, I cannot run vmplayer.

The last time I run it, about one week ago, it was working well. I've made several updates since this time, but no update to vmware itself.

I've rebuild the kernel too, but I've run module-rebuild build.

I'm on Gentoo.

Whenever I try to launch it, it outputs this error:

NOT_IMPLEMENTED /build/mts/release/bora-1031769/bora/lib/misc/codeset.c:1708 [1] 3542 abort /opt/vmware/bin/vmplayer

I tried unmerging vmware and reinstalling it again, but it didn't worked.

If I rename the folder containing the virtual machine, vmplayer launchs correctly, but then, when I try to open the virtual machine, it crashes with the same error.

Does that mean that my virtual machine is bugged ?

Does someone know a solution to this problem ?

Here are the versions installed:

• app-emulation/vmware-modules-271.2
• app-emulation/vmware-player-5.0.2.1031769
• app-emulation/vmware-tools-8.8.5.893925

Answer 1

I'm on gentoo as well and have the same problem. I'm using vmware-workstation-9.0.2.1031769 and get

~ $ vmware
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/etc/vmware/hostd/proxy.xml"
NOT_IMPLEMENTED /build/mts/release/bora-1031769/bora/lib/misc/codeset.c:1708

Only thing I can remember is an update of the package "dev-libs/icu" from version 49.1.2 to 51.1 which made me uninstall libreoffice as of incompatiblilty. The rest of the normal updates went well without surprises. (I usually do an "emerge -auDNv @world" two or three times a week.)

I'm going to undo the icu update and see if that resolves the issue. Will report back...

Edit: typo