Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

>> Did you install the tools manually or by emerging
>> vmware-workstation-tools?
>
> Manually; the ones in portage seem hopelessly outdated: "Available
> versions: ~*4.5.3-r1 ~5.5.1-r2 ~5.5.2 ~5.5.3 {X}"

Try using the vmware overlay, it seems to provide more recent versions of
the tools (6.0.0 ATM).