This issue may occur because the state of the virtual machine may not be saved correctly in the suspend state file during a shutdown.
To resolve this issue, you must remove the suspend state from the virtual machine.
To remove the suspend state from the virtual machine:
- Close VMware Workstation.
- Locate the virtual machine's folder. For more information, see Locating a hosted virtual machine's files (1003880)
- Delete the .VMSS and .LCK, files.
- Open the .vmx (virtual machine configuration) file in a text editor. For more information, see Editing the .vmx file of a VMware Workstation and VMware Player virtual machine (2057902)
- Find the line which starts with:
checkpoint.vmState
- Remove everything between the quotation marks. It should look like:
checkpoint.vmState = ""
- Save and close the .vmx file.
Warning: Deleting the suspend state has the same effect as performing a hard reset of the virtual machine, or pushing the Reset button on a physical computer, in that any unsaved data in open applications is lost.