Boost Virtual Machine Performance On Ubuntu, Fedora, PCLinuxOS And Debian

This document explains how to set up the VMware Tools in the following guest operating systems: Ubuntu 7.04, Fedora 7, PCLinuxOS 2007 and Debian Etch. Installing VMware Tools in your guest operating systems will help maximize performance, provide mouse synchronization and copy & paste functionality. This article also shows a way of making VMware Tools start automatically when you start a guest operating system.
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I used the VMware Tools v1.0.3-44356 provided by VMware Server v1.03.

A very good article and I might have to try it out on my Vista OS, to see how fast of an improvement it does on the LINUX side of it.