The real issue here is that VMWare Workstation under normal usage will suddenly suspend, which depending on memory configuration and hard drive speed, can take several minutes to recover from. In cases where a beta-test server is involved, numerous users can be inconvenienced and lose work. VMWare's recommended solution of auto-grabbing the cursor almost makes things worse, since it works only 95% of the time, so lulls you into thinking the problem is solved. After my post yesterday I clicked in the newly resumed VM window and pressed Ctrl-Z to undo what I originally wanted to undo, and lo and behold off I go into suspend mode again.
The fact that VMWare A) chose Ctrl-Z (one of the most commonly used key combinations in Windows) to suspend and B) refuses to recognize and immediately fix the issue, says something about the company that I now have mixed respect for.
I run 4 or more VMs on my Desktop every day and switch between them often. I am a developer and could modify the VMWare.exe, but I refuse to do that knowing it will have to be redone for every release and depend too much on my VMs to risk corrupting an application that I should not have to be debugging. Yes it is a BUG!
