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Bug: Running VMs in Background Doesn't Return Keyboard To Host

When shutting down Workstation while one guest is running I'm asked whether to have this VM get into "Suspend", "Power Off" or "Run in Background".

After choosing "Run in Background" keyboard control is not returned to the host OS!

It's not possible to type anything into the host OS. Instead, keyboard input is still being sent to the guest OS (invisibly because there is no such thing like a guest OS window available).

This is most likely not an OS issue. Just for the sake of completeness: I'm running Windows 7, 64 Bit host / Windows 7, 64 Bit guest.

This bug should quickly be fixed. It renders the Run in Background option useless.



[VMware]: Workstation 17 Pro; --
[host]: Windows 10x64 host; --
[guests]: Windows 10x64, Windows 8x64.
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