Just because its virtual do not think licenses also become virtual ;-)
so restriction with per seat licenses,ect apply equally in this virtual domain. Read http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/vmimporter_v20.html carefully ,specially section 3.6

"Licenses required for third-party software. The Software enables you to run multiple instances of third-party guest operating systems and application programs. You are responsible for obtaining any licenses necessary to operate any such third-party software, including Guest Operating Systems."

then read
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:5MmpcSVC4NAJ:download.microsoft.com/download/6/8/9/68964284-864d-4a6d-aed9-f2c1f8f23e14/virtualization_brief.doc+vm+image+download+license&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&client=iceweasel-a
http://www.vmware.com/solutions/whitepapers/msoft_licensing_wp.html
http://www.vmware.com/solutions/whitepapers/msoft_addendum.html#c5829
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-science@lists.debian.org/msg01416.html

if you want to share a directory between guest and host OS, then you need to create a shared folder. adding virtual disks won't help you.
Thus create a shared folder to real time share data . how ever you need to have vmtool installed to do this successfully.
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/running_sharefold_ws.html
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/how-to-share-folders-with-your-ubuntu-virtual-machine-guest/

Installation on kernel 2.6.24 is messy , the reason is VMWare is not up to speed to generate vmmon modules for the latest kernel.

I encountered the following error, since I tried to use a latest kernel.
Version mismatch with vmmon module: expecting 167.0, got 161.0.
You have an incorrect version of the 'vmmon' kernel module.
Try reinstalling VMware Workstation.

but before this error you are most likely to get lot of compilation errors which you can get around by running any-any-patch.

so here is the recommended method to get VMWare installed in Debian.