VMware install on F7

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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? 

Is the "Get the Source" guidance at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel#head-e8ad3159461876ddaff
51c82994e2f9369512a28 my answer for F7?

Dave McGuffey
Principal Information System Security Engineer // NSA-IEM, NSA-IAM
SAIC, IISBU, Columbia, MD



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