1.1 enter Linux as root 
2. Log out to Windows, click the Enable VMware Tools sub-menu under the setting menu, and confirm the installation. 
3. Change the optical drive to an ISO image, path: C:/program files/vmware workstation/programs/Linux. ISO 
4. Run Mount-T iso9660/dev/CDROM/MNT in Linux. 
Load the CDROM device, then if you enter the/mnt directory, you will find an additional file: vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz. This is the Linux software package of wmware tools, which we saw when we used winiso to open the Linux. ISO file. 
CP/mnt/vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz/tmp 
Copy the package to the tmp directory of Linux. 
Umount/dev/CDROM 
Uninstall CDROM. 
CD/tmp 
Enter the tmp directory 
Tar zxf vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz 
Decompress the package to the vmware-Linux-tools directory (with the same name as the file name) by default ). 
CD vmware-Linux-Tools 
Enter the decompressed directory 
./Install. pl 
Run the installation command. 
In this case, install prompts you whether to back up the previous configuration file. We recommend that you select "Y ".