I also confirm that the problem does not occur any more with VMWare Workstation upgraded to 8.0.2 (actually reinstalled). So this was not an Ubuntu bug but a VMWare one when working with Ubuntu
I also confirm that the problem does not occur any more with VMWare Workstation upgraded to 8.0.2 (actually reinstalled).
So this was not an Ubuntu bug but a VMWare one when working with Ubuntu