Virtual machine taking forever to shut down.

My setup is VMware Workstation 8 host on Windows 7 guest Windows 2008 R2.

 

When trying to shutdown Windows 2008 R2 it goes to a black screen and stay there for up to 1 hour. Cannot leave VMWare. I need to shut down machine or terminate all vmware processes.

 

Found this site with the solution:

http://flakrat.blogspot.com/2011/12/vm-guests-take-forever-to-shutdown-in.html

 

Basically need to add the following changes to the vmware config.ini located in:

C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation\config.ini

 

And adding the following settings to it.

prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "100"

mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"

mainMem.partialLazySave = "FALSE"

mainMem.partialLazyRestore = "FALSE"

 

Make sure none of the .VMX files are overriding these changes.

 

I think this is all.

 

God bless,

Bruno