Package management on the VMware image is broken. If I try to run yast from the command line I get the following error:
missing d /usr/share/man/man3/YaST:::SCRAgent.3pm.gz
missing d /usr/share/man/man3/ycp.3pm.gz
package yast2-ncurses is not installed
package yast2-qt is not installed
missing d /usr/share/doc/packages/yast2-gtk/README
Something is wrong with the YaST user interface.
Normally I would fix this by installing additional packages with zypper. Unfortunately zipper is not installed on the image, so it appears there is no way to get any additional programs installed at all.