I have the same issue with my M6500 and VMware. I tried using Workstation and player and various versious of each. They will all instantly crash and reboot my host with no logged events. I solve this by the alternate approach of stopping the vmusbarbservice and hcmon service (from the command line use stop net vmusbarservice). This seems to solve the problem but there is one program that I do need to use a USB key for. Does anyone know the underlying cause of this and a solution?
Thanks