Huh... well that is one option I suppose! That's quite a limitation to put on the usefulness of VMWare though - and it would seem to be an unnecessary one in most cases. I don't want to have to keep my computer awake constantly any time a VM is open, or have it hibernate and increase the startup time (I'm not sure hibernating even works correctly).
I haven't had this problem with VirtualBox, or running Ubuntu natively, so it seems like something that should be a fixable issue. And I prefer to use VMWare because it's slightly faster than VirtualBox, and I really value being able to use Linux without shutting down and rebooting the computer into another OS. I really can't claim entitlement to any support or level of service, because I don't use it for commercial use, and haven't paid for the Pro version, but... I certainly am happy I haven't, if this ends up being a limitation I would just have to put up with to continue using it! 