HI,
I've been successfully using workstation 7.x on my ubuntu 9.10 laptop to run a windows XP machine for over a year now without any problems.
But since upgrading to workstation 8 I've experienced several hard freezes/hang of my laptop while running the VM.
The only way to recover is to power-cycle the laptop.
The laptop is on pretty much 24x7, the VM too. (At least is was before the upgrade to ws8.. 
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The last time it happened was last night, inspecting the system logs after restarting it this morning shows that the host just completely froze a few hours after I went to bed. No indications as to why.
It's happened while vmware was running in a window, full-screen as well as with the gui closed and the vm running in the background. Mostly while I was away from it, so I can't tell what sort of activity was going on inside the VM or on the host at the time of the hang. Although - given I wasn't using it - probably not much (on the host at least).
Anyone else experiencing similar problems/regressions after an upgrade from ws7 to ws8?
Regards, Mark.