I found a way to suspend ALL VMs not just shared ones. In Windows 10 and Workstation Pro 14 the following works for me. The VMrun command appears to be part of the player as well, so this might work for you to suspend all you player images on system shutdown.
Create a script to run during system Shutdown - i named mine SuspendVMs.bat
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cd C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation
for /f %%G in ('vmrun list') DO vmrun suspend %%G"
exit
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The above file creates one error command but does not slow down the suspend - and postpones the sustem restart or shutdown until ALL VMs are suspended
Please the file in C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Scripts\Shutdown
then Edit Group policies to run it - reference
https://lifehacker.com/use-group-policy-editor-to-run-scripts-when-shutting-do-980849001
basically run gpedit.msc
then
Computer configuration
Windows Settings
Scripts(Startup/Shutdown)
on right side double click shutdown
the ADD the script to the list
