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[Chris Aitken]

Jamon Camisso wrote:
> On September 28, 2007 03:32:55 pm Chris Aitken wrote:
>   
>> Ian Petersen wrote:
>>     
>>> On 9/28/07, Chris Aitken <chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> [root at p733 chris]# ls -l /lib/modules/`uname -r`/
>>>> total 1556
>>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     45 2007-09-13 07:49 build ->
>>>> ../../../usr/src/kernels/2.6.22.5-76.fc7-i686
>>>>         
>>> You could try again, and this time provide
>>>
>>> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.22.5-76.fc7-i686/include
>>>
>>> as the answer to
>>>
>>> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
>>> running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
>>>       
>> Okay, I tried that...
>>
>> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
>> running
>> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
>> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.22.5-76.fc7-i686/include
>>
>> The path "/usr/src/kernels/2.6.22.5-76.fc7-i686/include" is not an existing
>> directory.
>>
>> Then I used the File Brwoser to see if this directory exists. It
>> doesn't. So I changed the path to reflect what is actually there...
>>
>> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
>> running
>> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
>> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.22.7-85.fc7-i686/include
>>
>> The directory of kernel headers (version 2.6.22.7-85.fc7) does not match
>> your
>> running kernel (version 2.6.22.5-76.fc7).  Even if the module were to
>> compile
>> successfully, it would not load into the running kernel.
>>
>> So the kernel module doesn't match the running kernel?
>>     
>
> Try http://fedorasolved.org/server-solutions/vmserver-install
>   
Okay, I worked through about half of that. I think the last step (9) i 
did was

su -c 'yum -y install kernel-devel'

I think I then did a cold boot. I ran the vmware-config.pol and this time it was satisfied with the path to the headers. The vmware installation completed successfully.


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Chris
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