I have disabled VMware's feature to automatically grab and ungrab the mouse cursor and it seems like the bug addressed here is not occurring anymore, but I haven't thoroughly tested this yet. This setting can be changed (in VMware workstation) by opening Edit -> Preferences -> Input -> Automatically grab and ungrab the mouse cursor. I am not aware of a similar setting in VMware Player. Perhaps it is worth for others to try working with this setting turned off.
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