@michuzet
Yes, I did share your pain - none of this is certainly not acceptable in professional use. There are several show-stoppers in trying to use Linux host. NONE of them where present some years ago, when Linux was far more better virtualization platform than Windows.
I stopped trying to solve this. Several attempts to figure this out - what the problem really is and what might the solution really be - just resulted in unprofessional, uncalled ranting, which the Admin of this Corporate Forum was unwilling to delete. I made a mistake to rely on this being a strictly professional forum.
Probably this is too difficult (=money-wise not worthwhile) for VMware to solve - perhaps there is something strange going on in Windows memory management, in regard to shutdown-start/reboot differences. Incidentally, early releases of Windows 11, perhaps Betas at that time, didn't seem to have this problem ... not checked after the first official release of Windows 11.
So, I went for a Windows 10 Host. Running Linux VMs (mostly just Kubuntu and Ubuntu Studio) is almost OK ... you just need to wait for the VM to start and NOT move the VM view and certainly NOT resize the view, before everything is running. If you try to start your work too early, only Restart from VM menus gives you the next try-out. No freezes, though after getting it initially running and view resized. Windows VMs work fine there, too.
