Build of VMWARE worstation and FC-6

[Ed Gurski]

On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 12:48 -0500, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:36:04 -0700
> From: don fisher <dfisher at as.arizona.edu>
> Subject: Re: Build of VMWARE worstation and FC-6 ?
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> I think I have a different problem. As I indicated in my original post, 
> I even attempted to downloaded the source version from kernel.org and 
> and could not get past the "where are your includes" question. The 
> threads mentioned all appear to address a version incompatibility 
> problem. Most of the posts got past the point where i am blocked.
> 
> Is this the same or different problem?
> 
> don
> 
> Paul Smith wrote:
> > On 10/29/06, don fisher <dfisher at as.arizona.edu> wrote:
> >> Has anybody else had a problem building vmware workstation? I receive
> >> the following:
> >>
> >> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
> >> running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
> >>
> >> The directory of kernel headers (version @@VMWARE@@ UTS_RELEASE) does
> >> not match your running kernel (version 2.6.18).  Even if the module were
> >> to compile successfully, it would not load into the running kernel.
> >>
> >> I am confident that I have the correct kernel source loaded. I even went
> >> out to kernel source and built a version from the base distribution.
> >>
> >> I am afraid I do not know what @@VMWARE@@ UTS_RELEASE means.
> > 
The location of the C header files can be found in:

/usr/src/kernel/`uname -r`/include

which will currently translate to:

/usr/src/kernel/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/include

Note: I have installed VMWare workstation on both an AMD X64 and an
Intel Centrino. The one giving me a problem was the Centrino, since by
default the I686 kernel source was loaded by default. You will need to
erase that source and install the i586 source, then run
"vmware-config.pl" to complete the installation...
-- 
Ed Gurski <ed at gurski.com>