Re: Problem Installing VMware Tools in Fedora-9

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On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> 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.
>> >>
>> >
>> > You need to run vmware-config.pl (as root). If that doesn't work, Google
>> > for vmware-any-any-update117.tar.gz (or anything later than 117),
>> > download, untar and run the runme.pl script (again as root).
>> >
>> > poc
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> As far as I can determine, this is a patch to the Workstation program
>> running on a Linux host and not the Fedora Guest . I am running with a
>> Windows host for which this patch is not applicable. Please tell me if
>> this is incorrect.
>
> You are correct in that the patch is aimed at a Fedora host, but nowhere
> in your original message do you state that your host is a Windows
> machine. That's a fairly important point to make when asking for help.
> Unfortunately it's not a configuration I'm familiar with.

I have just installed successfully the new 1.0.6 version of VMware Server on F9:

http://www.vmware.com/download/server/

Paul

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