On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 13:30 -0700, Doyle Rhynard wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > 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. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
