So I've got a Macbook Air 2010 unibody running VMWare 4.1.1 and I just installed VMwareTools-8.8.1-528969.tar.gz
The screen is not resizing at all.
Went back to VMwareTools-8.8.0-465068.tar.gz and the screen at least resizes.
The only issue is that there's no ubuntu menu bar in unity mode.