Installing patch for VMware Workstation 5.5 For Linux

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
>
>
>     Hello,
>          I went to the site to download the patch.  Upon installing the
> patch, it brought me to the installation of VMware.  This is the output
> of the installation.  What can I do to correct this situation?
>
> output:
>
> [jeffy at jeffy ~]$ su
> Password:
> [...]
> [root at jeffy vmware-any-any-update101]# ./runme.pl
> [...]
> Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.
>
> None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation is suitable
> for your
> running kernel.  Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon
> module for
> your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)?
> [yes] yes
>
> Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.
>
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
> running
> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] /usr/src/linux/include
>
> The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory.
>
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
> running
> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

yum install kernel-devel

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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