Thanx to Dave Parker http://computersalad.blogspot.com/2018/09/using-vmware-remote-console-on-debian.html sudo su cd /usr/lib/vmware/bin mv vmrc vmrc.old Create a new vmrc file in /usr/lib/vmware/bin with this content #!/bin/bash LIBDIR="/usr/lib/vmware/lib" BINDIR="/usr/lib/vmware/bin" LD_LIBRARY_PATH="" for dir in $(find ${LIBDIR} -type d) ; do LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${dir}:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" done export LD_LIBRARY_PATH ln -s ${BINDIR}/appLoader /tmp/vmrc /tmp/vmrc $* rm -f /tmp/vmrc exit 0