Problem Installing VMware Tools in Fedora-9
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri May 30 19:05:00 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 16:11 -0700, Doyle Rhynard wrote:
> I am having a problem installing VMware Tools in a Fedora-9 VM that I
> created using the latest version of Workstation-6. I keep getting the
> error message: "The directory of kernel headers (@@VMWARE@@ UTS RELEASE)
> does not match your running kernel version (2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64)" when
> it tries to patch the kernel. I have installed several previous version
> of Fedora on VMware and never encountered a problem like this.
>
> I checked that
> fedora-9-x86_64-DVD/Packages/kernel-headers-2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64rpm file
> using "rpm -qpl" was what was installed at "/usr/include". I even made a
> link under "/usr/src/linux/include" to match the directory structure
> that VMware Tools was expecting, but got the same result.
>
> I have seen several messages asking for assistance with Fedora-9
> installed with VMware, so it would appear that others have been able to
> do it successfully. It is quite possible that I have made some
> unintentional mistake somewhere that I am unable to find.
>
> Unfortunately, VMware does not support Fedora because it considers it to
> be too experimental and unstable, which is probably accurate, especially
> for version 9, so I cannot ask there. If anyone in Fedora-Land has had a
> similar experience or has any ideas about how to solve this problem, let
> me know.
You need to run vmware-config.pl (as root). If that doesn't work, Google
for vmware-any-any-update117.tar.gz (or anything later than 117),
download, untar and run the runme.pl script (again as root).
poc
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