Strange behaviour Vimarun ?

[Sontec]

I installed Vimarun on a host that was initially running VMware Workstation Pro 15.5.6. Later, I replaced Workstation Pro with version 26H1.
In both installations, the option “Keep VMs running after Workstation closes” was enabled.

I added my VMware guest to Vimarun and tested both the foreground and background options.

When using the “foreground” option:

• The guest VM starts automatically when the host is restarted.
  
• After logging in to the host, VMware Workstation starts automatically and appears within about one minute.
  
• According to VMware Workstation, the guest VM is running.
  
• After logging off from the host user account, I lose the connection to the guest VM after about one minute.
  
• When I log back in to the host, Vimarun shows the guest as stopped with a blue rectangle.
  
• VMware Workstation also shows the VM status as Powered off.
  

When using the “background” option:

• The guest VM starts automatically when the host is restarted.
  
• After logging in to the host, both Vimarun and VMware Workstation show the guest VM as running.
  
• However, the VM cannot be accessed through VMware Workstation itself; the VM tab remains black.
  
• After logging off from the host user account, the guest VM continues running.
  
• The guest VM can still be accessed remotely, for example via TeamViewer.
  
  

The “foreground” option is the one I would normally prefer to use.
However, if the guest VM is powered off whenever I sign out of the host user account, this does not seem to match what I expected from Vimarun.

Using the “background” option feels almost the same as starting the guest with vmrun using the nogui option through a scheduled task.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this expected behavior?