Problem Installing VMware Tools in Fedora-9

[Doyle Rhynard]

I am having a problem installing VMware Tools in a Fedora-9 VM that I 
created using the latest version of Workstation-6. I keep getting the 
error message: "The directory of kernel headers (@@VMWARE@@ UTS RELEASE) 
does not match your running kernel version (2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64)" when 
it tries to patch the kernel. I have installed several previous version 
of Fedora on VMware and never encountered a problem like this.

I checked that 
fedora-9-x86_64-DVD/Packages/kernel-headers-2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64rpm file 
using "rpm -qpl" was what was installed at "/usr/include". I even made a 
link under "/usr/src/linux/include" to match the directory structure 
that VMware Tools was expecting, but got the same result.

I have seen several messages asking for assistance with Fedora-9 
installed with VMware, so it would appear that others have been able to 
do it successfully. It is quite possible that I have made some 
unintentional mistake somewhere that I am unable to find.

Unfortunately, VMware does not support Fedora because it considers it to 
be too experimental and unstable, which is probably accurate, especially 
for version 9, so I cannot ask there. If anyone in Fedora-Land has had a 
similar experience or has any ideas about how to solve this problem, let 
me know.