Trouble installing VMWare on Fedora Core 8

avrohomg · 11-23-2007, 12:27 AM

Hello,

I am very new to Linux.
When I try to install VMWare server 1.4 on Fedora Core 8, it's telling me that I have to compile it myself. When I try to do that, I get the following error message:

The directory of kernel headers (version 2.6.23.1-49.fc8) does not match your
running kernel (version 2.6.21-2950.fc8xen).

Have you ever come across this? What should I do?

Thanks,

Avrohom

Lenard · 11-23-2007, 05:48 AM

Boot the system to the 2.6.23.1-49 kernel.

avrohomg · 11-23-2007, 01:08 PM

Thanks! That did the trick. Although, VMware still did not compile, and gave me an error message about some inconsistancy with the kernel.

Lenard · 11-23-2007, 02:54 PM

Try one more time, you may want to download/extract/run-me.pl the the latest vmware-any-any-update;

http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/

vmware-any-any-update114.tar.gz 14-Oct-2007 10:44 460k

avrohomg · 11-24-2007, 08:18 PM

Thanks for the link. I downloaded it. The compilation seemed to go alot smoother, however, it still died in middle and told me there is some inconsistency with the kernel. I'm using 2.6.23.1-49 kernel.

Thanks,

Avrohom

Lenard · 11-25-2007, 06:45 AM

Well without any knowledge of what this inconsistency with the kernel is I cannot help. I suggest you visit at the vmware forums for further assistance;

http://communities.vmware.com/index.jspa

TheMadIndian · 12-09-2007, 05:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by avrohomg

Thanks for the link. I downloaded it. The compilation seemed to go alot smoother, however, it still died in middle and told me there is some inconsistency with the kernel. I'm using 2.6.23.1-49 kernel.

Thanks,

Avrohom

Do you have the kernel-devel package installed?

drobert · 12-13-2007, 02:58 PM

Hi!

This readme describes
this "package", which should fix all your problems compliling VMWARE on Fedora Core.
Of course you need the matching kernel headers.