Power off delay

Hi, I have a problem with vmware player (5.0.1 build-894247, host Windows 7 professional x64) during guests poweroff.

The problem occurs after guest os shutdown (successfully completed) or during hard guest power off using "Player-->Power-->Power Off" with a variable delay (1 to 2 minutes); during this delay vmwre player remains black without messages or errors.

After this delay vmware player returns to the home screen with the list of the available virtual machines.

I checked guests log searching for some clues and I found some interesting log record on vmware.log, here an example

 

2013-01-11T18:28:07.435+01:00| vmx| I120: MKS PowerOff

2013-01-11T18:28:07.459+01:00| usbCCIDEnumCards| I120: USB-CCID: Card enum thread exiting.

2013-01-11T18:28:07.460+01:00| vmx| I120: scsi0:0: numIOs = 4353 numMergedIOs = 6 numSplitIOs = 4 (40.0%)

2013-01-11T18:28:07.460+01:00| vmx| I120: Closing disk scsi0:0

2013-01-11T18:28:07.906+01:00| vmx| I120: AIOWIN32C: asyncOps=4077 syncOps=248 bufSize=0Kb fixedOps=0 sgOps=4271 sgOn=1

2013-01-11T18:28:07.906+01:00| aioCompletion| I120: AIO thread processed 4077 completions

### Everything works swiftly until now, look the timestampe between these two records (1' 19" delay)

### during this delay vmware player remains black, it seems waiting something to happen

### when the situation unlocks I got these errors and shutdown proceed quickly

2013-01-11T18:29:26.064+01:00| vmx| I120: WORKER: asyncOps=2 maxActiveOps=1 maxPending=0 maxCompleted=1

2013-01-11T18:29:26.065+01:00| vmx| I120: Policy_SavePolicyFile: invalid arguments to function.

2013-01-11T18:29:26.065+01:00| vmx| I120: PolicyVMX_Exit: Could not write out policies: 15.

2013-01-11T18:29:26.065+01:00| WinNotifyThread| I120: WinNotify thread exiting

2013-01-11T18:29:26.171+01:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [6576 mainDispatch.c:3854]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=1, newAppState=1873, success=1 additionalError=0

2013-01-11T18:29:26.171+01:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [6576 mainDispatch.c:3873]: VMAutomation: Ignoring ReportPowerOpFinished because the VMX is shutting down.

2013-01-11T18:29:26.196+01:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [6576 mainDispatch.c:3854]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=0, newAppState=1870, success=1 additionalError=0

2013-01-11T18:29:26.196+01:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [6576 mainDispatch.c:3873]: VMAutomation: Ignoring ReportPowerOpFinished because the VMX is shutting down.

2013-01-11T18:29:26.196+01:00| vmx| I120: Transitioned vmx/execState/val to poweredOff

2013-01-11T18:29:26.196+01:00| vmx| I120: VMX idle exit

2013-01-11T18:29:26.196+01:00| vmx| I120: VMIOP: Exit

2013-01-11T18:29:26.199+01:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [6576 mainDispatch.c:859]: VMAutomation_LateShutdown()

2013-01-11T18:29:26.199+01:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [6576 mainDispatch.c:809]: VMAutomationCloseListenerSocket. Closing listener socket.

2013-01-11T18:29:26.200+01:00| vmx| I120: Flushing VMX VMDB connections

2013-01-11T18:29:26.200+01:00| vmx| I120: VmdbDbRemoveCnx: Removing Cnx from Db for '/db/connection/#1/'

2013-01-11T18:29:26.200+01:00| vmx| I120: VmdbCnxDisconnect: Disconnect: closed pipe for pub cnx '/db/connection/#1/' (0)

2013-01-11T18:29:26.204+01:00| vmx| I120: VMX exit (0).

2013-01-11T18:29:26.204+01:00| vmx| I120: AIOMGR-S : stat o=2 r=12 w=0 i=0 br=111616 bw=0

2013-01-11T18:29:26.204+01:00| vmx| I120: OBJLIB-LIB : ObjLib cleanup done.

2013-01-11T18:29:26.204+01:00| vmx| I120: FileTrack_Exit: done

 

I noticed the same problem on any other vm, with different guests os (linux and Windows) with the latest vmware tools installed.

Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks for help