The fix, according to VMware Technical Support is;
- Downgrade the HW version to 16.x
- Increase the number of cores per processor to 2 and keep the processor as 1
- Upgrade the HW to 17.x
- Change the processors and number of cores as necessary.
You can also resolve the issue by adding the following to your VMX file.
cpuid.coresPerSocket = "1"
