LinuxQuestions.org - vmware cannot find kernel headers on arch linux

Wouldn't you know it? I set yesterday aside to get vmware working on my machine and the archlinux.org goes down for "maintenance" 10 minutes after I get started. And it's still down for maintenance. The frickin' thing had a wiki page specifically devoted to installing vmware! And forum topics related to my issue. Siiiiigh. Well, I am quickly losing patience since I would really like to set up vmware as quickly as possible, even though my issue is probably solved some where on archlinux.org.

Well, I'm running a completely updated Arch Linux. I have vmware workstation 6.5.2. It seemed to have installed fine, but when I run it it asks for the location of my kernel-headers so that it can compile some modules, and it can not find those kernel-headers. This isn't unexpected -- my experience with virtualbox is that it needs to compile modules to run as well, so why not? Anywho, it has a little box that asks me what location the headers are installed in, so I try a bunch of different paths and press 'install' at each one. None of them work. Specifically, I'm trying /lib/modules/2.6.30-ARCH/, /usr/src/linux-2.6.30-ARCH/, and various sub-directories therein (/lib/modules/2.6.30-ARCH/build, etc.) None of them work, of course.

I have the kernel headers installed:

Code:

[dunder@vertex ~]$ yaourt -Qi kernel-headers                                  

Name          : kernel-headers                                                

Version        : 2.6.30.5-1                                                    

URL            : http://www.gnu.org/software/libc                              

Licenses      : GPL                                                          

Groups        : base                                                          

Provides      : None                                                          

Depends On    : None                                                          

Optional Deps  : None                                                          

Required By    : glibc                                                        

Conflicts With : None                                                          

Replaces      : None                                                          

Installed Size : 3964.00 K                                                    

Packager      : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>                              

Architecture  : x86_64                                                        

Build Date    : Sun 23 Aug 2009 09:58:46 AM EDT                              

Install Date  : Mon 24 Aug 2009 12:35:38 PM EDT                              

Install Reason : Explicitly installed                                          

Install Script : No                                                            

Description    : Kernel headers sanitized for use in userspace

And they are of the same version as my kernel:

Code:

[dunder@vertex ~]$ yaourt -Qi kernel26

Name          : kernel26            

Version        : 2.6.30.5-1          

URL            : http://www.kernel.org

Licenses      : GPL2                

Groups        : base                

Provides      : None

Depends On    : coreutils  kernel26-firmware>=2.6.30  module-init-tools

                mkinitcpio>=0.5.20

Optional Deps  : crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your country

Required By    : nvidia

Conflicts With : None

Replaces      : kernel24  kernel24-scsi  kernel26-scsi  alsa-driver

                ieee80211  hostap-driver26  pwc  nforce  squashfs  unionfs

                ivtv  zd1211  kvm-modules  iwlwifi  rt2x00-cvs  gspcav1

                atl2  wlan-ng26  aufs  rt2500

Installed Size : 133676.00 K

Packager      : Thomas Baechler <thomas@archlinux.org>

Architecture  : x86_64

Build Date    : Mon 17 Aug 2009 10:19:04 AM EDT

Install Date  : Thu 20 Aug 2009 08:58:13 PM EDT

Install Reason : Explicitly installed

Install Script : Yes

Description    : The Linux Kernel and modules

uname -r, by the way, is
2.6.30-ARCH

So what's wrong? Why can't I get vmware to compile its modules?

Thanks.