I'm 99.999% sure that this method will work. I've found a solution and described the procedure here: http://www.droidmantra.com/2013/01/fix-vmware-workstation-8-9-freeze-on.html
Please don't consider the external link as spam. It is something which worked brilliantly for me. So I posted the content in my blog although it's completely irrelevant to its topic and shared it here.
Courtesy to: Dave Parsons for the open source tool.