You can try to use rpm from the site VMware tools latest for your kernel
But I prefer to install vmware tools c using a script vmware-install.pl
I do not know the package manager your distro, but if it's yum, you can try to do following
1) Install packages to build the kernel modules
yum install gcc kernel-devel
2) Check the running kernel matches the kernel headers
uname -r # running kernel
rpm -q kernel-devel # installed kernel headers
3) If the two versions do not match, run
yum -y upgrade kernel kernel-devel
reboot
4) Find out where the kernel headers are (you may need this later)
ls -d /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)*/include
And the actual installation
5) In menu VM go to "Install VMware Tools"
6) From the VM: mount the virtual cd drive
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/
7) Extract VMware Tools to /tmp
tar -C /tmp -zxvf /mnt/VMwareTools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz8) Unmount the virtual cd drive
umount /mnt9) Now run the installer
cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib./vmware-install.pl