VMware Workstation 14 Player 14.1.1 build-7528167 on Debian Stretch.
Downloaded, checmed with md5sum and installed with no warning or error messages.
On first time statup: I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/etc/vmware/hostd/proxy.xml"
However/etc/vmware does not contain any subdirectories (screenshot attached).
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