Bill Wilson wrote: > Hi > Has anyone had experience with installing vmware on RH7.3. > I have just downloaded the 30 day trial version of vmware 3.1 workstation > and tried to install it. As the vmware package does not include a module > for RH7.3, you have to run the vmware-config.pl program that tries to > compile a module after it asks you a lot of questions. I am stuck at the > question that asks for the directory that contains the kernel header files. > When I replied /usr/include I got back the message: > "The directory of the kernel headers (version 2.4.9-9) does not match your > running kernel (version 2.4.18-3). Even if the module were to compile > successfully, it would not load into the running kernel." > I can only assume the RH people have not included the correct header files > etc to match the distro.
figgers > Has anyone got suggestions. Get a normal, recent, Linus-released kernel, configure it, compile it, and make it go. Then tell vmware:- /usr/src/linux/include/linux It is the normal - Linus' - place. I trust you have a resonably grunty machine with lots of memory. -- C.S.
