In case it's helpful for anyone else, I was able to get around this by excluding both the VMCI and EFI Firmware drivers from the VMware Tools install:

e:\setup64 /s /v "/qb REBOOT=R ADDLOCAL=ALL REMOVE=VMCI,EFIFW"

Finding the component name for the EFI Firmware was especially tricky, as VMware doesn't include it in the Tools documentation.