I am not going to reinvent the wheel again here, so redirecting you all to this link: http://www.vmwarearena.com/2014/07/how-to-generate-crash-dump-for-vmware-virtual-machine-guest-os-hung-issues.html Technote: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/snapshot2core_technote.pdf
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