vmware 4.9 strange message in shutdown

[Orestes Leal R.]

I'm getting the following error when I shutdown the machine (inside vmware  
WS 7.0)

I issue: shutdown -hp now
then I get:

"vmware: sending length failed , eax=00000000m, ecx=00000000
vmt0: failed to send shutdown ping"

finally it shutdown but no so fast.


this is because?