This is driving me nuts. I go to shut down a vm in Workstation 9.0.2 running on my developer machine (Windows 7 x64, 16GB ram, 500GB SSD), and it TAKES FOREVER (if it ever completes at all).
If I use the client's "Shut down" option... then normally XP pops up a dialog and asks what I meant... shut down, sleep, hybernate, etc... in a second. After that XP normally does the shut down in about 30 seconds on a typical XP box.
In my VMWare Workstation, it can take 3+ minutes for THAT DIALOG TO APPEAR asking me what I meant by "shut down".
I can be more clear by right-clicking on the tab, and choose "power down client", which avoids the wait for that dialog (XP immediately starts the shut-down sequence). But this sequence takes many minutes to complete... and I normally see some sort of exception dialog at the very end for just an instant before the VM powers off.
The host machine is a sandy-bridge class machine with 2x the ram it needs running on a ridiculously fast 500GB Samsung SSD. There is no reason in hell that VMWare would need more than XP's nominal 30 seconds to shut down (and it should take less, since it is sitting on top of a fast processor on SSD).
There's not much going on in the client itself... I've already closed what few apps I ran, and they're nothing special (and this all used to work under older versions of Workstation on older, slower host machines).
Any ideas???? This sucks!