On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 09:41 +0100, Jonathan Rawle wrote: > Julian Underwood wrote: > > > I'm assuming this is all normal and fine. My problem is when installing > > vmware, I get to the question: > > > > What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your > > running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] > > > > I don't have the option of pointing it towards > > /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358SMP, because it doesn't exist! Just the plain > > old non-SMP kernel source is there, and vmware doesn't like it. What > > would be the easiest way to place my existing kernel source into this > > /usr/src/ folder? I've tried using synaptic to install this source, but > > the SMP source isn't available in synaptic either, just the non-SMP one. > > > > The same source is for both kernels, SMP and UP. Are you sure your version > of vmware is new enough to understand 2.6 kernels, with their different > source trees? > > I believe you need vmware 4.5 to run on FC2 - this is availible as a free > upgrade for registered users of version 4. > > Jonathan First get the free upgrade to 4.5.1 from vmware, then install the vmware-any-any-update-67.tgz or later from http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/ Works for me as long as the kernel-source is installed and/or have properly built/installed a custom kernel before running vmware-config.pl. I have seen the claim several times on fedora-test-list or elsewhere that kernel-source does not have to be installed to use VMware, but I have yet to see how to make that configuration work - always end up getting messages about headers not found or not matching the running kernel. Phil
