After more discussions and testing, it has been reported that the ‘official’ VMware 17.5.0 fix for kernels 6.5 and later may cause some problems..   This has led to the latest version of the 17.5.0 patchset now incorporating the ‘get_user_pages‘ fix from the previous 17.0.2 patchset, and the reasons behind this can be found here:
https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/commit/4c2a103fd2d71f2084f1fe7ceacb816b9832ffa2

The patchset can be found here:
https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-17.5.0

I have briefly tested this latest version successfully, with Kernel 6.5.8..

Robert Gadsdon.   October 22nd 2023.