I don't think that's the case in my situation. I have 244 GB of free space on the drive that's hosting my virtual machines:

Does my config.ini perhaps chime a bell:

.encoding = "UTF-8"
mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"
devices.hotplug = "FALSE"
authd.client.port = "903"
authd.proxy.nfc = "vmware-hostd:ha-nfc"
installerDefaults.autoSoftwareUpdateEnabled = "yes"
installerDefaults.autoSoftwareUpdateEnabled.epoch = "18954"
installerDefaults.componentDownloadEnabled = "yes"
installerDefaults.dataCollectionEnabled = "yes"
installerDefaults.dataCollectionEnabled.epoch = "18954"
prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "100"
priority.grabbed = "high"