To save you all valuable time in the similar situation, I am sharing here with the detail steps to install VMWare Tools on Ubuntu Linux Guest OS in VMWare WorkStation (version is 5.5.9). More here
Today, my co-work showed me how he installed VBoxAdditions in Virtual Box to improve the guest Linux OS screen resolution. I could not help thinking I should do the same in VMWare WorkStation by installing VMWare Tools
