With RHEL 8.5 and workstation 16.2.1 build-18811642 doesn't works with the default vmmon/vmnet, with patches from https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-16.2.1 the vmnet loads but the vmmon shows this errors:

[12975.859387] vmmon: Unknown symbol CrossPage_CodePage (err 0)

[12975.859414] vmmon: Unknown symbol cpDataTemplate (err 0)

[12975.859446] vmmon: Unknown symbol HostToVmm (err 0)

[12975.859462] vmmon: Unknown symbol CrossPage_CodeEnd (err 0)

[12975.859482] vmmon: Unknown symbol CrossPageInitSwitchIDTs (err 0)