Automated cherry pick of #67825: Fix VMWare VM freezing bug by reverting #51066

[nikopen]

Cherry pick of #67825 on release-1.8.

#67825: Fix VMWare VM freezing bug by reverting #51066

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/assign @saad-ali @jpbetz

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The release-1.8 branch is no longer one of the supported kubernetes release branches per our release policy. The actively patch managed branches are 1.9, 1.10 and 1.11.