How to access CD from LINUX installed in VMWare Virtual machine?

In VMware workstation click on VM -> Settings -> CD-ROM.
Make sure check boxes "Connected" and "Connect at power on" are ticked.
Then restart the Linux machine availble in VM.

After this you need to mount CDROM to one of your local location.
Find out in your machine where CDROM device is available.
>>> dmesg|grep -i cdrom
hdc: Vmware Virtual IDE CDROM Drive, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

From above output, in my machine it is available in /dev/hdc.

Now mount it to a local location "/mnt/cdrom". Make sure this directory is already created.

>>> mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only

Thats it. Now you can access the CD contents from /mnt/cdrom.