On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 16:11 -0700, Doyle Rhynard 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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
