The printer and mouse/keyboard are the only things connected to the docking station. Without even using the docking station and disconnecting external power, anything in the USB ports continue to function as normal. The thing is that I had shutdown this VM properly, closed Player, removed external power, started Player and tried to boot the VM. The error in the image above is what appeared.
I've gone through all the power settings on the Host OS and disabled any form of power saving while on battery and it has had no resolution to the VM.