Finally I resolved all this stuff with the help of http://bugs.gentoo.org/147524:
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mknod /dev/vmmon c 10 165
In conclusion, maybe it would suffice to load at boot vmware_vmplayer-2.5.0_k2.6.21.7.sfs and manually create the device - at least on my Puppy 4.0! Just wondering why on 4.1.2 retro (so the same kernel as 4.0) people is not supposed to create it... Any idea?