I've seen similar posts on this subject, and have tried the proposed solutions, none of which worked. When I issue the command
vmrun -T server -h https://localhost:8333/sdk -u username -p password stop "[standard] guestmachine/guestmachine.vmx" soft
it never completes. The guest is freebsd 8.0 with vmware tools installed and running on VMware Server Version
2.0.2 Build 203138. The web gui reports that shutdown has successfully been initiated, but the guest continues to run unaffected. Any ideas as to why this might be happening?