I followed the VMWare instructions on the HA site but they didn’t match what I was seeing in Workstation Player 17. I didn’t see an option to do a “custom” setup and so I also didn’t see an option for compatibility with Workstation and ESX and an option to Use an existing virtual disk i.e the Home Assistant VMDK.
Try This Guide
Installing Home Assistant on VMWare Player 17.
PS dont watch the video, just follow the following instructions
Thanks! That was super helpful and it worked!
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Ive been using players up-till 16 until recently, so i was rather use to that, until i installed another ha-os in Vmware on debian, then i ended up in same situation as you, used to install Player 16, with no issues, but 17 !?, Well eventually i found that brilliant detailed instruction 
Please mark the post with the Url, as Solution, so other people will have easier to find it
I don’t see where I can mark the post as Solution?
there should be a “greyed out” saying “solution”, i think you should click on it, but i actually dont remember
No, I see Like, Share, Bookmark but not Solution.