Installing VMware Workstation Professional VMware Tools in Ubuntu 16.04

It is good practice to get the latest updates before installing VMware Tools. Open terminal and run the following:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade
$ sudo reboot

If the update needs to upgrade the kernel, it is a good idea to reboot the machine before installing the tools so that we are compiling against the correct kernel.

From VMware Workstation menu, do VM | Install VMware Tools....

$ mount cdrom
$ mkdir ~/tmp
$ tar -xvzf /media/u1/VMware\ Tools/VMwareTools-9.9.5-3735633.tar.gz -C ~/tmp
$ cd ~/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/
$ sudo ./vmware-install.pl -d
$ eject
$ sudo reboot

Where:
u1 = is the username, replace it with your username
VMwareTools-9.9.5-3735633.tar.gz = version of VMware Tools in the ISO, change it with what's in /media/<user>/VMware Tools/.