Yep, alot of vmware tricks today 
Reciepe to recompile/install vmware tools:
(Assuming you are in a terminal)
Monthly archives for August, 2009
How to recompile / install vmware tools on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64 bit stalls on VMware
Stumbled upon another issue when running Ubuntu on wmvare today, it seems that a TSC clock bug in the 2.6.24 kernel. Short it goes out of sync when running with more than one cpu / vcpu.
Missing network interface after cloning a Ubuntu template on ESX vmware server
I was cloning some Ubuntu 8.04 LTS machines from a template i made and everything went fine, except the kernel could not find my eth0 and mapped a new eth1.
After some thinking and testing, i found out that the device manager’s had the old MAC address in the udev rules file. (ofcoz, doh!)