On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 09:40 -0500, 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? > > 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 > > Do you have the kernel development ("kernel-devel") package installed? That's what VMware needs. Also, the source is looked for by VMware in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/source (or build instead of source, since they point to the same place), which is a link to /usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`. -- Mark C, Allman, PMP -- Allman Professional Consulting, Inc. -- www.allmanpc.com, 617-947-4263 BusinessMsg -- the secure, managed, J2EE/AJAX Enterprise IM/IC solution
