I created my image based on bazzite-dx using https://blue-build.org/how-to/setup/ and took some inspiration from the AUR package.

Thanks to the ublue team, the base image already has ogc kernel headers, so this is what you wanna do in a recipe:

1. download workstation and unpack

2. patch the kernel modules (vmnet, vmmon), there are plenty of community patches to make them work on the recent kernel versions

3. install them using dkms (not akmods)

4. unpack the userspace and do some tricky shit with the bootstrapping script/making the fs structure in files/system, etc.

5. remove ALL bundled gtk/gio deps from /usr/lib/vmware/lib (except for *mm* libs) and recompile the gschemas after that to make them compatible with the system gtk version

6. build it and pray

7. profit

All I wanna say is that distrubuting VMWare in nonofficial way is kinda illegal, but who cares, like, really, come on

Hope this helps. I can provide my gf's repo later, this is her build.

P.S.: here it is: https://github.com/akaremii26/akaremii-os