If you have a guest Windows VM inside a Linux host, you really want to install VMWare Tools inside the guest. It makes the VM perform better and allows you to do some things that you can’t if VMWare Tools is not installed. Two things that I found useful are that the mouse can move freely in and out of the VM and screen resolution can be changed to anything I want.
For some reason my Windows VM didn’t have VMWare Tools installed. I don’t know if it’s because of a choice I made during the creation of the VM in VMWare Converter or something else, but apparently downloading a copy of VMWare Tools isn’t so trivial. Luckily, Brandon Hutchinson explains in length how to do it (and thank you for that, Brandon.)
Once I had the copy of VMWare Tools as the file windows.iso, I still needed to get it installed on the guest VM. Eventually I decided to do it the dumb (yet easy) way. I burnt the CD on the host and since the CD drive is shared inside the VM, I could then install it from there.