Rich,
Thank you for your reply -- I'm glad, I'm not the only one.
The same thing here -- no messages when no VMs are running.
My host workstation is:
CPU: i7-4770
OS: Debian 7
Are you running a Haswell processor as well?
I've reported this issue to VMware using my 30-day complimentary support, and will update the thread upon any response from VMware.
Thank you again,
Alex.