I am using VMware Workstation 15.5 and trying to install CentOS 8. When I boot and it starts the installer it gives me a message on the bottom "Pane is dead". I tried to set "install operating system later", picked CentOS 7, selected ISO as the CD ROM device and attempted the install. Unfortunately VMware does not pick up the boot device as ISO and goes right to DHCP boot. So I tried a CentOS 7 ISO, same thing. I just upgraded VMware Workstation from 15.0 to 15.5.
I finally find a solution to this problem.