installing ubuntu 20.04 on vmdk using vmware crashed

[raghu8linux]

tried to install ubuntu using vmware player 16, on windows host.
installation crashed

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: ubiquity 20.04.15.17
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-27.29~20.04.1-generic 5.11.22
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.18
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CasperVersion: 1.445.1
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Sep 7 05:28:46 2021
InstallCmdLine: initrd=initrd file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed quiet splash --- debian-installer/custom-installation=/custom find_preseed=/preseed.cfg auto preseed/file=/floppy/preseed.cfg automatic-ubiquity noprompt priority=critical locale=en_US console-setup/modelcode=evdev BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210819)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)