Re: VMware configure trouble on FC5

[Jack Gates]

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 19:08, Paul Smith wrote:
>  On 8/29/06, Jack Gates <jlgates(a)charter.net&gt; wrote:
>  > I am trying to configure VMware-workstation-5.5.1-19175.i386.rpm
>  > on FC5 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp
>  >
>  > I have installed the kernel-smp-devel
>  > kernel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.src.rpm
>  >
>  > /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl is looking for something
>  > in /usr/src/linux/include
>  >
>  > /linux/include none of this part of the above exists
>  >
>  > I tell it to look here
>  > /usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2174_FC5-smp-i686/include
>  >
>  > but it gives me this
>  >
>  > The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not
>  > have the same
>  > address space size as your running kernel.
>  >
>  > What is the location of the directory of C header files that
>  > match your running
>  > kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
>  >
>  > What am I missing or what don't I have installed that it is
>  > looking for so it can finish the configuration?
>
>  Do
>
>  yum install kernel-smp-devel
>
>  and then run vmware-config again.
>  
Did already and did a reboot just good measure.

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