If you are using a version prior to 5.5.3, you will want tofollow this guide.
If the file web client doesn’t open, just double-press the cdrom icon.
You will see a file named VMwareTools-5.5.3-xxxxx.tar.gz.
Right click it and choose Extract To.
Pick a location to extract the files to.
sudo /etc/init.d/networking stopsudo rmmod vmxnetsudo ./vmware-tools.pl
The installation of vmware tools should proceed smoothly at this point.
You’ll probably want to reboot just to verify everything is going to start back up smoothly.
