Seems that CD/DVD Legacy Emulation (in advanced tab for CD/DVD device) fixes this - at least it has worked twice in a row using this option when it would never work previously. Hardware is HP DL380 G7 with HP slimline SATA CD/DVD writer and HP ML370 G5 with HP half-height DVD writer. VMPlayer is version 5.0.1 build-894247 - it also failed with version 4.
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