Hi all,
today I received the same error,
only my Win7 workstation seems to be affected, we use a test environment with ESXi 5.5.
when I try to open a console from one of our W2K8 servers, it still works, so I think a reboot of the VM is no solution, also rebooting the whole ESXi not.
Looks like a local error on the client computers, the only thing what's sure is, that our Win7 clients are domain computers, with lot's of policies, and updated via local distribution points, where we all know, the "updates" are not really up-to date, since it goes trough eng, scripting, ra, qa, ...
the W2K8 is one of the VM's on the ESXi itself, with direct WSUS updates from MS, so it is up to date.
therefore we need to check local FW rules, and the distributed internal updates, but could not find any updates rolled out today, only some scheduled for Windows security updates, but still not installed.
Reinstall should work, because it kills previously all running vmware processes, but as "nmeard" wrote killing the tasks of "vmware-vmrc.exe" worked fine.
this must not be an error of vmwares applications, we all know windows... (otherwise tell me somebody, why i had running this process 3 times in the background?!)