This might help some folks, running VMware Workstation Pro 17.0, temporary solution is rolling back the VMX config file virtualHW.version setting. Tested on a few different VMs (Windows and Linux), after installing 17.0 upgraded the VM hardware compatibility to 17.x which set virtualHW.version = "20" that is when started getting the unrecoverable error message. In the config file changed back virtualHW.version = "19" to VM hardware compatibility 16.2.x. Now everything is running properly. Welcome hearing back if anyone has the same result.
