This seems to be something related to Windows 10 or hardware. I assume that your Host is Windows 10.

If you look into the link, you will find one interpretation of the matter:

https://windowsreport.com/nmi_hardware_failure-windows-10

I would add to this discussion the following:

1.
You state that you haven't Updated anything. That is a problem that is mentioned in the list above.

On the other hand, I don't know what you really mean by that, because:
- you cannot omit all Updates in Windows 10 with regular ways. It will always do security updates
- if you have disabled updates in the registry, well, see the list above
- every software install will update your system (in terms of some OTHER software using same .dll's) as well, in an unpredictable way in the general case

2. 
There is one additional problem, which may SEEM like an application problem

That is a memory problem. Windows (at least used to) uses memory in sequential order. Thus some application that uses more memory than what is normally used, will crash the system, if that part of the memory is faulty. This looks application specific, while it is not.

You can use (almost) any Linux distro media (like Ubuntu, Puppy Linux) for starting a memory test. If that finds a problem, there surely is a problem. If it doesn't find a problem, there still might be, because testing memory is much harder in a reliable way, they say. Anyway, checking memory banks (if you have a workstation, where chips may get lose) AND changing the order of memory chips, is also one way to try to find out, if there is a problem. Using another application that reserves lots of memory, is a third possible way to test memory.

So, in the end, there are quite a few possibilities to check, but some of these things are very quick to test. If there is some VMware specific thing to check, I hope somebody else knows about them. Typically, a well-known official application does not crash a healthy system like that, it is very uncommon.