Faster VM shutdown in VMWare player

Locate .vmx of the desired VM's folder. Open it using a text editor.

Add the following lines in the file (or update to the following if such attributes exist).

prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "100"
mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"
mainMem.partialLazySave = "FALSE"
mainMem.partialLazyRestore = "FALSE"

Ref: http://davidmsterling.blogspot.sg/2012/08/vmware-virtual-machine-takes-long-time.html