Hi Peter,
same here. The only proper solution is to uninstall 17.5 and download "VMware-workstation-full-17.0.0-20800274.exe" from VM site ... it is still available there.
I wonder why VMWare release the 17.5 build when the high-cpu-usage bug of vmnat.exe is known from prerelease version, as Jen2 mentioned. It is rather weird in case of such software company as VMWare is.
Best regards
Tomas