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I had a very similar looking problem on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . Check /var/log/vmware-installer In my case there was this error message: "Exception: VMIS:[Errno 2] No such file or directory: path('/etc/security/limits.conf') and the workaround was to create the missing file with touch

As a test, I've just installed Ubuntu Desktop 22.04.3 LTS on Fusion 13.5 / 2014 Mac mini / Monterey 12.7.1. I chose not to use Easy Install (I've found that to be wonky and not of much value). I double checked Security & Privacy settings on my Mac. Under Accessibility, VMware Fusion.app is allowed to control my computer - that absolutely needs to be enabled for Fusion to work properly. That begs the question: why isn't the guest picking up the mouse? Copy and paste of text works properly both ways (host -> guest and guest -> host). Drag and drop does not work with a Wayland session, but does with an Xorg (X11 session).  You say that you've tried installing/reinstalling open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools desktop. Did you check to see if the old-style VMware Tools are installed (they shouldn't be)... Also is 3D acceleration enabled? If so, is the shared graphics memory in the Display setting of the VM set to 8192 (the recommended value). This is a strange one. Definitely need more info on the version of Ubuntu that you're running. Perhaps also a look at the vmware.log and mksSandbox.log files would yield some clues about what's going on. (zip them up and post them if you could).

Sorry, I don't know anything more about the internals of the installer, so can't be of more help there. <ignore> I hate to say this, but when that has happened to me in the past, I uninstalled by brute force.  I basically searched for all the locations where there were vmware files, and manually deleted them.  As I didn't know how to tell where the files were, I searched for any files with expressions like `# find / -iname "*vm*" 2>/dev/null` and then noted directories, etc. and forcibly deleted them being very careful to avoid removing unrelated files, configuration files, and the VM's themselves. If I wasn't sure, I moved or renamed them in a way that I'd not forget how to put them back if something broke.  Clearly, its more complicated than one command; I can't say I recommend this as it is easy to break a system. I was able to do it, and have a couple of times over the years.  In my case, it was a personal system, so playing fast and loose wasn't really a huge risk; I keep my data on separate disks from the OS.</ignore>

Fusion  Player Version 13.5.0 (22583790) Mac model: MacBook Pro M2 2022 OS: Sonoma 14.1.11 CentOS Downloaded today Nov 9, 2023: CentOS-Stream-9-latest-aarch64-dvd1.iso   .vmx config: (I used the defaults) $ cat d.vmx .encoding = "UTF-8" config.version = "8" virtualHW.version = "21" pciBridge0.present = "TRUE" pciBridge4.present = "TRUE" pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort" pciBridge4.functions = "8" pciBridge5.present = "TRUE" pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort" pciBridge5.functions = "8" pciBridge6.present = "TRUE" pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort" pciBridge6.functions = "8" pciBridge7.present = "TRUE" pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort" pciBridge7.functions = "8" vmci0.present = "TRUE" hpet0.present = "TRUE" nvram = "d.nvram" virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted" powerType.powerOff = "soft" powerType.powerOn = "soft" powerType.suspend = "soft" powerType.reset = "soft" displayName = "d" usb.vbluetooth.startConnected = "TRUE" firmware = "efi" guestOS = "arm-other6xlinux-64" tools.syncTime = "TRUE" tools.upgrade.policy = "upgradeAtPowerCycle" sound.autoDetect = "TRUE" sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio" sound.fileName = "-1" sound.present = "TRUE" numvcpus = "2" cpuid.coresPerSocket = "1" memsize = "768" sata0.present = "TRUE" nvme0.present = "TRUE" nvme0:0.fileName = "Virtual Disk.vmdk" nvme0:0.present = "TRUE" sata0:1.deviceType = "cdrom-image" sata0:1.fileName = "/Users/msacks/Downloads/CentOS-Stream-9-latest-aarch64-dvd1.iso" sata0:1.present = "TRUE" usb.present = "TRUE" ehci.present = "TRUE" usb_xhci.present = "TRUE" ethernet0.connectionType = "nat" ethernet0.addressType = "generated" ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000e" ethernet0.linkStatePropagation.enable = "TRUE" ethernet0.present = "TRUE" extendedConfigFile = "d.vmxf" floppy0.present = "FALSE" vmxstats.filename = "d.scoreboard" numa.autosize.cookie = "20012" numa.autosize.vcpu.maxPerVirtualNode = "2" uuid.bios = "56 4d ae 2d c0 1c 89 32-73 90 f6 bf 9f ba 92 c4" uuid.location = "56 4d ae 2d c0 1c 89 32-73 90 f6 bf 9f ba 92 c4" pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17" pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21" pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22" pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23" pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24" usb.pciSlotNumber = "32" ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "160" sound.pciSlotNumber = "33" ehci.pciSlotNumber = "34" usb_xhci.pciSlotNumber = "192" sata0.pciSlotNumber = "35" nvme0.pciSlotNumber = "224" nvme0:0.redo = "" svga.vramSize = "268435456" vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "134217728" vmotion.checkpointSVGAPrimarySize = "268435456" vmotion.svga.mobMaxSize = "268435456" vmotion.svga.graphicsMemoryKB = "262144" ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:ba:92:c4" ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0" vmci0.id = "-1615162684" nvme0.subnqnUUID = "52 bf a7 5a 13 36 67 d9-5d 4b 9a e5 86 1e 91 b3" monitor.phys_bits_used = "32" cleanShutdown = "FALSE" softPowerOff = "FALSE" usb_xhci:4.present = "TRUE" usb_xhci:4.deviceType = "hid" usb_xhci:4.port = "4" usb_xhci:4.parent = "-1" usb_xhci:6.speed = "2" usb_xhci:6.present = "TRUE" usb_xhci:6.deviceType = "hub" usb_xhci:6.port = "6" usb_xhci:6.parent = "-1" usb_xhci:7.speed = "4" usb_xhci:7.present = "TRUE" usb_xhci:7.deviceType = "hub" usb_xhci:7.port = "7" usb_xhci:7.parent = "-1" usb:1.speed = "2" usb:1.present = "TRUE" usb:1.deviceType = "hub" usb:1.port = "1" usb:1.parent = "-1" svga.guestBackedPrimaryAware = "TRUE" checkpoint.vmState = "" ehci:0.present = "TRUE" ehci:0.deviceType = "video" ehci:0.port = "0" ehci:0.parent = "-1"  

What version of Fusion, what Mac model, and what macOS version? What’s the date on the CentOS 9 Stream installer? How did you configure your virtual machine? (A copy of the .vmx file would be helpful). 

I agree with you that VMware should not be constantly adding and removing these. It’s lazy coding - otherwise they’d have to write a proper uninstaller to remove these as opposed to just dragging the app to the trash. VMware should have installed those items once and left them there, updating them only when needed by upgrades. It’s also not like those services are started  by the system automatically  they are started on demand by Fusion   I believe Apple is on the path of stopping the system wide Library folders from being modified by applications. Whats annoying is that VMware knew about this long before Fusion 13.5 was released. I personally had an exchange with their staff during the Tech Preview stage. They decided not to do anything about this despite knowing about it for months. 

One thing triggers the other...  Is there any reason for VMWare to keep adding/removing these?  That is what triggers the Background notification from Apple... Solution:  developer, don't remove them.. there is no need to remove files added to these folders.. Its seems Apple is alerting people in the right way, but the implementation of is it allowing developers to annoy users. BTW: VPN apps do the same thing. ExpressVPN is annoying me equally as bad. But it  the way Apple allowed this add/remove to happen when there is no resewn to remove files. They introduced the issue. If users want to remove files they can  manually browse these two folders  and remove manually..