There are also several posts in the VMWare Workstation community reporting the same problem:
"Soft lockup, CPU stuck" on Red Hat guests after upgrade to Fusion 12.2.0
VMWare Workstation 16 Pro + Ubuntu 22.04.1 - VM unresponsive with high CPU
There are also several posts in the VMWare Workstation community reporting the same problem:
"Soft lockup, CPU stuck" on Red Hat guests after upgrade to Fusion 12.2.0
VMWare Workstation 16 Pro + Ubuntu 22.04.1 - VM unresponsive with high CPU