If you experience a symbolic link creation error during installation, see Unable to create the symbolic link when installing VMware Tools in Linux (328775).
If you are running an unsupported distribution or using an unsupported kernel version and are not able to compile modules or install VMware Tools, VMware recommends that you explore the https://community.broadcom.com/home. There are regular discussions on the forums about the latest development kernels and workarounds for building VMware Tools modules.
VMware tools can be uninstalled using the /usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl script. For related information, see Installing VMware Tools in vSphere (316546).
Note: VMware Tools no longer includes drivers for x Server 1.8 or higher. Ensure that these SVGA and mouse drivers are installed before installing VMware Tools:
If the drivers are not installed, VMware Tools installation will skip the x Windows configuration.
Note:- For VMware support for open-vm-tools
Additional Information:
Installing and upgrading VMware Tools in vSphere
Unable to create the symbolic link when installing VMware Tools in Linux
VMware Tools fail to start after a Linux guest operating system kernel upgrade
Overview of VMware Tools