I think VMware is great for its mobility in terms of moving the VMs to other platforms.
Setting up VMware tools in RedHat/CentOs/Oracle Linux causes a similar problem.
I figured this solution, that works for me:
yum install kernel-uek-devel-`uname -r`
yum install kernel-uek-devel
you need this as well:
yum install gcc
yum install make
Tell ne, if it works.