VMware encountered a classic error when creating a virtual machine:

Attempting to start up from:
EFI VMware Virtual SCSI Hard Drive (0.0) … unsuccessful.
EFI VMware Virtual SATA CDROM Drive (1.0) … unsuccessful.
EFI Network…

Solution:
1 Find the VMX file in the installation directory of the virtual machine
2 Delete firmware = “EFI”
3 Save and restart the virtual machine to install normally