VMWare stuck at "Restoring State"

You try to open VMWare but the status bar gets stuck (or moves extreeeemely slow) while "Restoring State" and will not open.

Do the following to fix -

With the Virtual Machine turned off and Fusion closed...

(First you might want to backup the Virtual Machine Bundle Package just in case you need to try other methods to recover from this issue.)

1) By default Virtual Machines are created in the "~/Documents/Virtual Machines" folder.

2) Control / Click on Windows XP, select Show package contents

3) Delete the Windows XP.vmss" file.

NOTE: In deleting this file anything that was not already saved to disk or was open will be lost

4) Retry opening VMWare

VMware stuck at Windows Shutting Down

Problem: VMware Windows XP is stuck, frozen at Windows Shutting Down

With the Virtual Machine running... VMware Fusion menu > Virtual Machine > press the Option key and then select Power Off or Reset.

Or With the Virtual Machine closed open the Virtual Machine Package and delete the .vmss file. Note: Anything not saved to disk when the Virtual Machine was suspended will be lost when deleting this file.