Workstation Pro 15.5.7 VM won't sleep on new laptop

[CharlesGilley]

I run a number of VMs for my work, all Windows 10 Pro.  I'm in the middle of migrating to a new laptop, and one of the VMs will no long sleep - either with the VMWarwe pause button or from Windows Power settings displaying the error:

"Failed to suspend the virtual machine: Internal checkpoint error."

The same VM works fine on my old laptop.  Other VMs on the new laptop suspend just fine.  I read about the read only possibililty - already checked this.  Also read through https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/WS-Pro-15-5-quot-Failed-to-suspend-the-virt... but no joy there.

Suggestions?  It would so happen that this is a fairly important VM.

Thanks

[CharlesGilley]

And this is why I refuse to upgrade to 17 and debug more of VMware's issues.  Maybe VMunaware is a better name for them.  I rarely if ever see support comment on anything in CF.  Usually it's just a big group hug for sympathy.

I wonder if the free VMPlayer will sleep my VM?  Hmmm, have to try that.

[CharlesGilley]

And I tried, workstation and player vmx files don't play nicely.