I think this VMware patch via git didn’t recently work for me upon the upgrade to kernel 5.14.
git clone https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules.git
cd vmware-host-modules
git checkout player-16.0.0
make
sudo make install
sudo /etc/init.d/vmware start
For VMware Workstation I had to download the proper, for me w16.1.2-k5.14 zip file to make, install, and start to get the vmnet and vmmon modules working.