maxvontilden wrote: ... For VMWare tools, I get this "The virtual machine needs to have a virtual CD/DVD device to install VMware Tools." I suppose this means I add a virtual CD/DVD from "settings" but I am not sure what I should be pointing to for an ISO image.
Yes you need to add the CD/DVD to the Virtual Machine and once done you can then try installing VMware Tools and it should automatically assign the linux.iso file to the CD/DVD and then to install VMware Tools in a Linux VM follow the direction in the Help File.