You might need to look in your /var/log/ at the kern.log, syslog and dmesg log files if journalctl -xe doesn't give you enough information, about what specifically is failing. I've never had any issues on PopOS 22.04 (which is basically Ubuntu 22.04 with some extra things).
I'm not sure if the vmware service will log anything anywhere else, but obviously something isn't starting right...
I assume the "make" and "sudo make install" both worked fine, no errors?
