kernel headers

[Scott Robbins]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 05:09:41AM -0700, Lawrence Graves wrote:
> what the error message says is that it could not find the kernel headers for
> kernel 3.7.1-5. I know that they were installed. So where are the kernel header
> file if in fact it was installed.

Usually, if VMware can't find kernel-headers, you need the kernel-devel
package. 

The kernel-devel package number has to match the result of uname -r.  What
I frequently see on the forums is that someone updated, got a newer package
of kernel-devel, but hasn't rebooted, so there will be a version mismatch.  

Also, if running a PAE kernel, one has to specify kernel-PAE-devel.  (Which
doesn't seem relevant in your case). 


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