After reinstalling OSX and upgrading to 10.8.2 yesterday, I am now experiencing the same issue as Dr. Gary. My next step is to change the setting in .vmx to see if I have the same issue. Here is one message from the Console that seems to repeat often.
2/20/13 4:39:16.186 PM WindowServer[91]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "VMware Fusion" after 19.97 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
And another set:
2/20/13 4:39:31.273 PM vmware-vmx[3370]: AQMEIO_Base::DoStartIO: timeout
2/20/13 4:39:36.299 PM vmware-vmx[3370]: AQMEDevice(0x10225ad40)::StartIO: error -66681
2/20/13 4:39:51.504 PM vmware-vmx[3370]: AQMEIO_Base::DoStartIO: timeout
2/20/13 4:39:56.529 PM vmware-vmx[3370]: AQMEDevice(0x1013a2410)::StartIO: error -66681
2/20/13 4:40:11.658 PM vmware-vmx[3370]: AQMEIO_Base::DoStartIO: timeout
2/20/13 4:40:16.683 PM vmware-vmx[3370]: AQMEDevice(0x105dd0440)::StartIO: error -66681
Looking forward to an update.
DeWayne