VMware wants C headers at /usr/src/linux/include

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue May 9 02:04:52 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 19:39, Ed Greshko wrote:

> > I've installed both src and devel packages for my kernel on FC5. I still
> > don't have anything at /usr/src/linux/include, which is where vmware
> > player is looking for the C headers. 
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me which packages I might be missing? 
> 
> Sounds like you are installing Vmware where Linux is the host OS.
> 
> You need to download
> http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update101.tar.gz
> 
> Unpack it and read the documentation.

You also need the kernel-devel package to exactly match
the running kernel.  For some reason mine didn't work until
I removed it and let yum install it over again.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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