On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 16:29 +0200, Dony Pierre wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to use the vmxnet driver for a guest RedHat ES version 4 running
> under a Vmware ESX server. To be able to use the vmxnet driver; I have
> to install the vmware tools. The kernel sources are not available in Red
> Hat 4, so I have install gcc, get the kernel source, install the source
> rpm with
>
> up2date --install gcc
> up2date --get-source kernel
> up2date rpm-build
> rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.src.rpm
>
> But when I execute ./vmware-config-tools.pl, I receive :
>
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
> running
> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
>
> Do we have to build the kernel to be able to install the vmxnet driver ?
>
> Any idea ?
> Thanks a lot for your help.
> Pierre.
The release notes for RHEL4 mention this:
Note
An exploded source tree is not required to build kernel modules against
the currently in-use kernel.
For example, to build the foo.ko module, create the following file
(named Makefile) in the directory containing the foo.c file:
obj-m := foo.o
KDIR := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
PWD := $(shell pwd)
default:
$(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules
Issue the make command to build the foo.ko module.
So if the makefile were done correctly for vmxnet, it would find the
required header.
A quick solution for you may be to install the kernel-devel or kernel-
smp-devel packages:
up2date -i kernel-devel
Cheers,
Michael
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