Ditto for both my (physical desktop) machines with vmware player :
Guest: Win XP, VM tools up to date
Host: Ubuntu 11.10
Desktop: Gnome-shell
Video Driver: Intel® G41 x86/MMX/SSE2 (and on the other desktop, same symptoms with Gallium open source driver for ATI HD 6770 card)
Gnome-shell appears able to freeze at any point when viewing vmplayer, although trying to switch to or from the vmplayer window may increase the odds.
Ditto for both my (physical desktop) machines with vmware player :
Guest: Win XP, VM tools up to date
Host: Ubuntu 11.10
Desktop: Gnome-shell
Video Driver: Intel® G41 x86/MMX/SSE2 (and on the other desktop, same symptoms with Gallium open source driver for ATI HD 6770 card)
Gnome-shell appears able to freeze at any point when viewing vmplayer, although trying to switch to or from the vmplayer window may increase the odds.