Looks like the hardware acceleration driver within VMware is faulty. If you have been seeing white text (or very light color) on white background dialogues in Chrome such as this:
The latest update to the screen driver in Vmware seems to be bugger. By disabling hardware acceleration you will get your black on white text back:
In chrome enter the following URL:
Then turn off the "Use hardware acceleration when available" - which you can see in the same screenshot above.