I see there have been some accepted solutions posted already.

But is it possible that what you are seeing is a defect in VMWare Workstation Player? I am running VMWare Workstation, not Player, but I'm seeing Workstation crash and I don't have proof but I have a shared folder which is under OneDrive control, and by observation, the crash seems like it happens often when OneDrive is busy synchronizing

This seems like it could be a defect which is reported as fixed here in a March version of Workstation (again I don't know if Player is affected by it): https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/16.2.3/rn/vmware-workstation-pro-1623-release-note...