https://GhostBSD.org/downland is an operating system with live media that boots from a USB image written to a usb flash disk drive stick. Need 8 megabytes ram minimum. Try it out on the bare metal, too. I am also unfamiliar with VM ware tools so I cannot answer your specific question about VMware TOOLS. Others have booted GhostBSD in a VMware and set a video output, specific too vmware. search on "vmware" in the https://forums.ghostbsd.org forums to find other users details and questions.
"# pkg search open-vm" may answer what is available? VMware is made to work with Linux, and FreeBSDs. So maybe VMtools answer should come from FreeBSD specific documentation?.
pkg search open-vm
open-vm-kmod-13.0.10.1500068,2 Open VMware kernel modules for FreeBSD VMware guests
open-vm-tools-13.0.10,2 Open VMware tools for FreeBSD VMware guests
open-vm-tools-nox11-13.0.10,2 Open VMware tools for FreeBSD VMware guests (without X11)
GhostBSD repository has 3 open-vm entries . Compare with the 1.) Nakivo documentation
Do try GhostBSD from a usb flash disk drive stick as live media in ram. Should make no changes to your present operating system or hard disk. Give that a test. I see that you are testing GhostBSD in Virtual Machine under Linux or Windows. Sometime in the future look at FreeBSD or GhostBSD Bhyve virtual machine for your needs to run another operating system in a virtual machine under FreeBSD/GhostBSD. Silve helps setup Bhyve.
I did a google and found these links that maybe helpful to you, specifically 1.):
1.) https://www.nakivo.com/blog/how-to-install-vmware-tools-on-guest-os-overview/
2.) https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/vmware-tools-guide/
Here from NARKIVO.com/blog text:
With the latest FreeBSD versions (10.x and newer), it is recommended that you install Open VM Tools from online software repositories and not VMware Tools from standalone installers included in ISO images. The latest version of VMware Tools for FreeBSD to be distributed as an ISO image is 10.1.15. For this reason, only the modern method of installing VMware Tools (Open VM Tools) from repositories is explained in this blog post. Note that if you have VMware Tools installed from an ISO image and you want to install the latest version of Open VM Tools, you must first uninstall the old VMware Tools version before installing Open VM Tools.
