I'm having this problem also. I have had a license for VMware Workstation for several years. Installed Ubuntu Desktop many times.
But when I try to install the newly released Ubuntu 23.04, the install seems to proceed fine, but I cannot login with the credentials I supplied. I've tried the installation several times now with the same results. I re-downloaded the Ubuntu iso to make sure it was valid. But I cannot login after an install.
It appears certain there is a bug here. Any suggestions?