Just an FYI... Even thought Linux Mint is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu or Debian nonetheless it is not an officially supported Host/Guest OS and as such it is considered normal and expected that there be issues when installing/using unsupported OSes. In some cases applying third-party patches may be necessary to resolve some issues.
Before installing VMware Tools you need to make sure that gcc, make and the appropriate kernel headers are installed and then issue the following command in a Terminal in Linux Mint 15 to resolve the "The path "" is not a valid path"error.
sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/include/linux/version.h
If you have other issues with VMware Tools working you should take a look at my reply: Re: VMtools installation problem on Ubuntu 13.04
Message was edited by: WoodyZ - Originally posted, Jun 20, 2013 1:53 PM. Updated Command Line.