Vmware Problems :S

Devboy · 10-14-2003, 05:33 PM

hi i have a problem with VMware 4.0well basicly when i goto configure it it gives me this error:

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] /usr/src/linux

can someone help me im on RH9 with the lastest kernel from RH9 update client.

jharris · 10-14-2003, 05:36 PM

Sounds to me like you don't have the kernel sources installed. What do you have in /usr/src ?

cheers

Jamie...

Devboy · 10-14-2003, 06:01 PM

okay heres a dir detials discrption:

usr/src
debug
"Empty"

redhat
BUILD
"Empty"
RPMS
athlon
"empty"
i386
"empty"
i486
"empty"
i586
"empty"
i686
"empty"
noarch
"empty"
SOURCES
"Empty"
SPECS
"Empty"
SRPMS
"Empty"

Thats it.

jharris · 10-14-2003, 06:17 PM

I would expect to see a directory there called 'linux' that would hold the kernel source. You need to download the source that matches whatever kernel you are running and extract it to /usr/src/linux. Then vmware will be able to build it's kernel module. I would imagine this will be on the disks that came with your distro.

cheers

Jamie...

Devboy · 10-14-2003, 06:39 PM

okay cheers mate ill download the source of the net.