I'm struggling with this as well. Win 11 22H2 for both host and guests, all fully patched. All guests use NAT networking. Upgraded from VMware Workstation 17 to 17.5, and after some time, all the guests lost DNS. I see the VMware NAT service is using 17-25% of host's CPU ... and my laptop fans confirm this. I went into the VMware virtual network adapter, added my host's DNS as a manual DNS entry, refreshed guest's network connection and flushed DNS, and network connectivity was restored. This will work great until my laptop moves to another network. I then went back in and cleared the manual DNS, flushed guest's DNS and refreshed IP, and it still had DNS resolution from the guests. Yes, I could down-grade the NAT service to 17.0.2, but I'm really trying not to. Maybe we'll quickly get a 17.5.1 patch release that solves this?
