Chris Hahn sent me over this note.
The SVGA II driver installed by VMware Tools doesn’t work with 2008 R2 or Windows 7. Console sessions will randomly lockup.
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/218244?start=105&tstart=0
According to the thread there is a WDDM driver in U1 that you can install manually to fix the problem by browsing to –
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMwareDriverswddm_video"
As been my experience, the VMware Community Forums are top notch and are all over this. 🙂 If you haven’t signed up for them or checked them out, you might want to.
UPDATE: There is also a KB article out on the subject.
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