I'm encountering an intermittent hanging of virtual machines when running 8.5.3 in macOS 10.12.3.
This has been occurring on and off since 10.12.0 and 8.5.
This VM is used by multiple people for Microsoft RDC. When the issue is reported, I can usually find the VM in a "half-hung" or completely hung state.
Half-hung is peculiar. The application window for the virtual machine is unresponsive and presents the pinwheel cursor as soon as the mouse hovers over it, however, the virtual machine is still reachable. Users can connect via RDC and work as expected. Force quitting VMware will of course interrupt the sessions, but upon relaunching the VM just picks up EXACTLY where it left off. There's no resume or boot process and it appears to function as normal.
The completely hung state is much more atrocious. The virtual machine application window is unresponsive, users cannot RDC, force quitting and relaunching will, again, bring the VM exactly back to the point it left off at, but will also require a restart of the guest OS before users are able to reconnect.
Thoughts?