Could not open /dev/vmmon: VMware Workstation 12 Player on CentOS 6.5

Hi,

I have been trying to run a VMware virtual machine on an Amazon machine with CentOS 6.5 (kernel 2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.x86_64), and I get the following error when launching:

Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory.

Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded.

Also, I cannot manage to start the services properly. When running sudo service vmware start I get the following:

Starting VMware services:

  Virtual machine monitor                                [FAILED]

  Virtual machine communication interface                [  OK  ]

  VM communication interface socket family                [  OK  ]

  Blocking file system                                    [  OK  ]

  Virtual ethernet                                        [  OK  ]

  VMware Authentication Daemon                            [  OK  ]

I have tried many solutions I have found in the Internet, like running vmware-modconfig --console --install-alland the one written in 15.04 VMWare Player "unable to start services" error - Ask Ubuntu but nothing succeeds.

I would really appreciate a solution to this problem, thank you!

Richard