On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 12:48 -0500, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:36:04 -0700 > From: don fisher <dfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Build of VMWARE worstation and FC-6 ? > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <45463804.80404@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > I think I have a different problem. As I indicated in my original post, > I even attempted to downloaded the source version from kernel.org and > and could not get past the "where are your includes" question. The > threads mentioned all appear to address a version incompatibility > problem. Most of the posts got past the point where i am blocked. > > Is this the same or different problem? > > don > > Paul Smith wrote: > > On 10/29/06, don fisher <dfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Has anybody else had a problem building vmware workstation? I receive > >> the following: > >> > >> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your > >> running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] > >> > >> The directory of kernel headers (version @@VMWARE@@ UTS_RELEASE) does > >> not match your running kernel (version 2.6.18). Even if the module were > >> to compile successfully, it would not load into the running kernel. > >> > >> I am confident that I have the correct kernel source loaded. I even went > >> out to kernel source and built a version from the base distribution. > >> > >> I am afraid I do not know what @@VMWARE@@ UTS_RELEASE means. > > The location of the C header files can be found in: /usr/src/kernel/`uname -r`/include which will currently translate to: /usr/src/kernel/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/include Note: I have installed VMWare workstation on both an AMD X64 and an Intel Centrino. The one giving me a problem was the Centrino, since by default the I686 kernel source was loaded by default. You will need to erase that source and install the i586 source, then run "vmware-config.pl" to complete the installation... -- Ed Gurski <ed@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
