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Subject: Re: Rebooting locks up with VMware Fusion 6 open-vm-tools enabled VM
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
> I’ve been rebooting my VMware VM regularly on 10-STABLE to do testing,
> and something changed in the past week or so to consistently cause my
> VM to go catatonic on reboot after the syncer is called to do a final
> sync to disk.

When I've seen this in the past on a bare metal machine the following
has fixed it:
sysctl hw.usb.no_shutdown_wait=1

    Regards
    Steve