This is happening to me as well. I used to have balanced performance on my Mac and VMWare but as of late, it has been one or the other. I have noticed that my memory is getting low where it didn't before. Hopefully this is something they will fix soon.
I've had real problems with sluggish performance when resuming from suspended sessions on both 2.05 and 2.06. Had always been snappy before, but it's like wading through treacle on the recent versions of 2.x. The solution I found was to shut the VM down and start it up each time, rather than suspending it, and then all worked fine.
I upgraded to 3.0 yesterday and that's fixed the issue for me, in fact it seems faster than ever now.