Not quite a_nut_in. . I looked again and I got the screenshots messed up - this is the first time I've used such programs so I give myself some slack
The behavior I'm seeing is not happening again (for example I installed Fedora 19 and it went along with the plan.
My scenario was that I was using WS the FIRST time after installation. At that time the preferences file (.home/user/.vmware/preferences) defaults to the Windows 7 operating system. In other words (copying my entire preferences file since its not long).
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pref.ws.session.window.count = "1"
pref.ws.session.window0.tab.count = "2"
pref.ws.session.window0.tab0.dest = ""pref.ws.session.window0.tab1.file = "/home/marty/vmware/Fedora 19/Fedora 19.vmx"
pref.ws.session.window0.tab0.file = "home"
pref.ws.session.window0.tab0.type = "home"
pref.ws.session.window0.tab0.focused = "FALSE"
pref.ws.session.window0.sidebar = "FALSE"
pref.ws.session.window0.sidebar.width = "204"
pref.ws.session.window0.statusBar = "TRUE"pref.ws.session.window0.tab1.file = "/home/marty/vmware/Fedora 19/Fedora 19.vmx"
pref.ws.session.window0.tabs = "TRUE"
pref.ws.session.window0.thumbnailBar = "FALSE"
pref.ws.session.window0.thumbnailBar.size = "125"
pref.ws.session.window0.thumbnailBar.view = "same-folder"
pref.ws.session.window0.placement.left = "432"
pref.ws.session.window0.placement.top = "30"
pref.ws.session.window0.placement.right = "1727"
pref.ws.session.window0.placement.bottom = "931"
pref.ws.session.window0.maximized = "FALSE"
vmWizard.guestKey = "fedora-64"
vmWizard.physicalBackend = "/dev/sr0"
hints.hideAll = "FALSE"
pref.eula.count = "2"
pref.eula0.product = "VMware Player"
pref.eula0.build = "1140354"
pref.eula1.product = "VMware Workstation"
pref.eula1.build = "1140354"
vmWizard.isoLocationMRU.count = "1"
vmWizard.isoLocationMRU0.location = "/home/marty/Downloads/Fedora-19-Beta-x86_64-DVD/Fedora-19-Beta-x86_64-DVD.iso"
vmWizard.mode = "custom"
vmWizard.installMediaType = "later"
pref.autoFitFullScreen = "fitGuestToHost"pref.ws.session.window0.tab1.file = "/home/marty/vmware/Fedora 19/Fedora 19.vmx"
hint.loader.debug.wsAndFusion = "FALSE"
hint.mainMem.backing.noSwap = "FALSE"
hint.tools.toolsReminder = "FALSE"
hint.ui.wizard.vm.showSuccessPage = "FALSE"
pref.ws.session.window0.tab1.dest = ""
pref.ws.session.window0.tab1.file = "/home/marty/vmware/Fedora 19/Fedora 19.vmx"
pref.ws.session.window0.tab1.type = "vm"
pref.ws.session.window0.tab1.focused = "TRUE"
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mWizard.isoLocationMRU0.location = "/home/marty/Downloads/Fedora-19-Beta-x86_64-DVD/Fedora-19-Beta-x86_64-DVD.iso" probably was something like (and I'm just guessing but it was something like this)
mWizard.isoLocationMRU0.location =/dev/sr0/openSUSE .... i.e. the program identified the OS after I rescanned it.
pref.ws.session.window0.tab1.file = "/home/marty/vmware/Fedora 19/Fedora 19.vmx" This line replaced Fedora 19 with Windows 7.
As I said it was easy to fix - just replace Windows 7 as the location of the .vmx with openSUSE.
Now what I should have done is skip the screen shots and just paster the the preferences file to define the problem more precisely.
If somebody wants to do this (I have other fish to fry) they should completely uninstall WS and create a new default .vmx file with what I think will be Windows 7.
As you see by the above preferences file Fedora 19 (.iso replaced by /dev/sr0 I'm guessing is now the default OS. This is actually very good programming since a likely scerenario is that somebody will create a VM which after powering on does not meet their needs so they blow it away and start again. Then again, not knowing the code,
it may just be what happened the last time regardless of what the user wants to do next.
This also means that if you do NOT keep your configuration during the uninstall process /.vmware/preferences is removed. All of this is conjecture but in the future if I really want to completely remove WS I will rm -fr /home/user/.vmware.
Anyway if somebody wants to post their preferences file from the beginning that probably would go a way in showing this one off anatomy. Myself I will continue with Fedora 19 which is working great - including VMwareTools. Sound is the only thing not working and I'm google around that - its always problematic for me.
Regards