It's a burdon to install VMWare Drivers into systems other than ubuntu, either you use open-vm-tools and loose some functionality or you try to compile vmware tools by yourself, which is really hard on anything other than ubuntu.
However open-vm-tools are getting better and better every day.
In the past I had lots of trouble with them and up to Fedora 18 you mostly needed to rely on the vmware native tooling.
arch had the same.
Currently the only thing which open-vm-tools is missing is the 'unity'-mode. However on Arch you need to rely on AUR to get the filesystem driver and the network driver, which is really aweful on Fedora you can't install these in a easy way aswell.
Only ubuntu has it which is mainly caused since open-vm-tools-dkms is not 'free'.
However open-vm-tools are getting better and better every day. In the past I had lots of trouble with them and up to Fedora 18 you mostly needed to rely on the vmware native tooling. arch had the same. Currently the only thing which open-vm-tools is missing is the 'unity'-mode. However on Arch you need to rely on AUR to get the filesystem driver and the network driver, which is really aweful on Fedora you can't install these in a easy way aswell. Only ubuntu has it which is mainly caused since open-vm-tools-dkms is not 'free'.