Create a directory to mount the cdrom
sudo mkdir /mnt/cdrom
Now need to see where the cdrom is mapped to, so run:
lsblk
So I can see sr0 is my rom
Mount the cdrom to the Directory just created:
sudo mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom
navigate to the Directory and run ls to see contents
Extract the VMwareTool-x.x.x.tar.gz file – note this name may be different per release
tar -xvf VMwareTools-10.0.0-2977863.tar.gz -C /tmp
change directory to where you extracted VMware tools
cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
Install vmware tools, the -d accepts all the defaults
sudo ./vmware-install.pl -d
Reboot the machine
