DarkSide

Two hours of googling other the web to find an answer how prevent VMWare from grabbing fist available vt didn't bring any results to me. Fortunately, the VMWare isn't performing checksum check on the start up. So the goal can be achieved by editing the "vmware-vmx" binary file. It should be located somethere in '/usr/lib/vmware/bin/' or '/opt/vmware/lib/bin'...
Since, the file is binary it can be edited with standard text editor. Use vi, mcedit, biew or something else supporting ability to work with binary files. So, search for "/dev/tty%d" string and replace it with fake path, for example "/tmp/tty%d".
Afterwards, you should create the file with %d=7 (/tmp/tty7 in my case). Done. Checked with VMWare 5.5.1.