VMware install on F7
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Thu Nov 8 14:48:19 UTC 2007
McGuffey, David C. wrote:
> I solved my samba and selinux problem (dealing with an old ntfs
> partition), now I'm moving on to the second stage of converting a
> machine to linux...getting an instance of WinXP or Vista running in
> VMware on F7.
>
> Did all the RTFM stuff. Downloaded an evaluation copy of VMware and the
> "any-any" patch from
> http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update114.tar.gz
> Installed the development libraries and tools.
>
> During the install VMware complains that the kernel doesn't have the
> right modules. So it wants to compile them. No problem, since I had
> rtfm, I was ready...almost. :(
>
> It is asking for the location of the linux source. The source
> directories in /usr/src/redhat are empty. When I started this
> conversion from XP to linux, I had downloaded the F7 DVD and installed
> the desktop/office option...later adding the development libraries and
> tools. It has been a long time since I had to muck with a kernel build.
> Is the source on that DVD? If so, where is it and how do I get it into
> the right location so that I can finish this VMware install?
Sounds like you don't have the kernel-devel package installed.
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