VMplayer 5.0.2 on openSUSE 12.3 kernel 3.8.1 restart KDE

I an running openSUSE 12.3 x86_64 with kernel 3.8.1 and I installed VMplayer 5.0.2 64 bit version.

When I launch vmplayer, it comes up and show me the list of VMs I have. However, when I try to *start* a VM, my KDE session is reset and

restarted, and I am logged out and faced with a KDE login screen.

I experienced a similar problem with openSUSE 12.1 or 12.2 and VMplayer 5.0.0 and back then it was a problem with KVM incompatibility and once

I uninstalled KVM my VMplayer worked fine. I do not have KVM installed now so I do not know what new issue is causing this problem.

Thanks.