[PLUG] VMWARE

[Wil Cooley]

On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 09:08 -0700, Rogan Creswick wrote:
> On 9/29/06, plug_0 at robinson-west.com <plug_0 at robinson-west.com> wrote:
> > I get the following error after installing kernel-devel via yum and
> > trying to run vmware-config.pl...
> 
> I don't know YUM based distros at all, but isn't there a
> kernel-headers package you could install rather than the kernel dev
> package?  IIRC, if you use a full kernel tree, you need to at least
> configure it to the same config as your running kernel.
> 
> FWIW, I don't believe I've ever seen *kernel headers (when installed
> separate from the whole src tree)* installed to /usr/src/linux.  But
> maybe Fedora or whatever is like that.

kernel-devel is the kernel headers package, but it installed
in /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)-$(uname -p)/.  By
convention, /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build is a symlink to kernel
headers, which is where vmware-config.pl looks and then
suggests /usr/src/linux if it fails, since that's conventional.

Wil
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Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc>
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