VMware configure trouble on FC5

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 29 23:08:15 UTC 2006


On 8/29/06, Jack Gates <jlgates at charter.net> wrote:
> I am trying to configure VMware-workstation-5.5.1-19175.i386.rpm on
> FC5 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp
>
> I have installed the kernel-smp-devel kernel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.src.rpm
>
> /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl is looking for something
> in /usr/src/linux/include
>
> /linux/include none of this part of the above exists
>
> I tell it to look here
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2174_FC5-smp-i686/include
>
> but it gives me this
>
> The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the
> same
> address space size as your running kernel.
>
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match
> your running
> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
>
> What am I missing or what don't I have installed that it is looking
> for so it can finish the configuration?

Do

yum install kernel-smp-devel

and then run vmware-config again.

Paul




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