It's a small but simple task to install VMWare tools on your virtual machine.
I used the VMware vSphere Client to connect iso of the official VMWare client software as a cdrom to the cdrom drive of the running vm.
Copy the tar.gz file to a temp directory
Extract the archive file
Run the installation file
The default parameters where sufficient for me so i could quickly continue I had to compile the tool again because there where no precompiled valid for my system. I...