Well, even though I haven't gotten any response, I have not given up hope, lol. I also have something of an update:
Last night I left VMWare running at the initial screen so I could just select the VM I needed and go, and this morning it had crashed producing a similar error and another log. Since I didn't even have a VM running (although I do not recall if I had it selected in the menu or not), I believe this is at least diagnostically relevant. I have also included the output from some outputs the vmware-suppport module, as well as a dump that occurred while I was sleeping as assume is relevant to the vthread-9 error I woke up to..
Again, any help is greatly appreciated..
New error:
VMWare Player unrecoverable error: (vthread-9)
NOT_IMPLEMENTED bora\lib\pollDefault.c:3914
LOG: C:\Users\SirMage\AppData\Local\Temp\vmware-vmplayer-17052.log
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