Looping back on this issue.

VMWare's tech support partner requested that I reproduce the issue and upload a support log bundle. Interestingly, the installation process (which I had to suspend/resume a dozen times to get it to complete the last time I tried to install Ubuntu 22.04) went completely without incident. I've since applied guest updates and restarted the VM a couple of times to activate them and have not experienced the issue.

I've tested the VM with and without other VMs running, after a fresh reboot, and also after the host has been running for days. I'm unable to reproduce the issue, and I'm not sure what has changed. No updates to Workstation Pro 17 have been released; there have been two Microsoft Windows updates applied, though: KB5021088 and KB5019959.

Is anyone else still experiencing the problem?