Thanks for your post.
Been having a lot of issues with some Linux distributions on Workstation 17. Most had video/audio issues like you mentioned you had on Windows VM's so I started setting up VM's under Workstation 17 for Hardware compatibility of Workstation 16.2.x. I have same VM's running fine on another system running Workstation 16. This seems to have solved most of the Linux VM issues except for Linux VM's running Arch based Linux but Arch Linux is a special animal that requires lots of manual tweaking even outside of VMware.
I was suspecting issue and your confirmation of issues was enough to push me to try same on Linux side and this solved most of problems I was running into. So proceed with caution upgrading VM hardware compatibility until tested first for Windows or Linux VM's.
