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.
