VMware provides a completely virtualized set of hardware to the guest operating system,include the hardware for a video adapter, a network adapter, and hard disk adapters.
Download the VMware software from one of the following links:
VMware Player(free):http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
VMware server(free):http://www.vmware.com/products/server/
VMware workstation:http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/
VMware ESX:http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/esx/
To install VMware tools,first open a terminal window and type following code:
wget http://chrysaor.info/scripts/ubuntu904vmtools.sh
then execute it by command:
sudo bash ./ubuntu904vmtools.sh
It will take a little time to finish running the command above,reboot and then you are done if you are using VMware server or workstation,for more about it,refer to chrysaor.info