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Vmware player installation

Hello,
I'm new in atrix; I installed it with openRC, switched to 5.10.30-1-lts kernel.
I need to install vmware player, so I do:
1-downloaded bundle from vmware site.
2-hmod +x VMware-Player-15.0.4-12990004.x86_64.bundle
3-sudo ./VMware-Player-15.0.4-12990004.x86_64.bundle
4-completing installation by wizard
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then according with more tutorial founded on the web, i should enable and start  vmware services like:
Add vmware.service.

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/vmware.service
[Unit]
Description=VMware daemon
Requires=vmware-usbarbitrator.service
Before=vmware-usbarbitrator.service
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/etc/init.d/vmware start
ExecStop=/etc/init.d/vmware stop
PIDFile=/var/lock/subsys/vmware
RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

Add vmware-usbarbitrator.service.

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/vmware-usbarbitrator.service
[Unit]
Description=VMware USB Arbitrator
Requires=vmware.service
After=vmware.service

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/vmware-usbarbitrator
ExecStop=/usr/bin/vmware-usbarbitrator --kill
RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start vmware.service vmware-usbarbitrator.service

and finally: sudo  vmware-modconfig --console --install-all



but those are for systemd, so I checked how to add service from open rc and shoud be:

rc-update add service runlevel where service is the name of the service to add,
but when I tried none of the service name are founded.

So I tried to lunch the player and it work, but after reboot I get Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded ;
so I run :
vmware-modconfig --console --install-all  and it work again, but after reboot is broken again. Anyone can help me with this installation, please?