FC4 => FC5 Upgrade & VMWare

[Andy Green]

Chris Ruprecht wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> last night, I upgraded my FC4 installation to FC5. All went well except
> that VMWare 5.5.1 no longer runs because of the newer kernel.
> 
> No problem - in the past, this was a simple 'vmware-config.pl' and all
> was well again. However, this time, it complains that it's
> missing /usr/src/linux/include and it's right.
> 
> I d/l the kernel source and did this:
> rpmbuild --rebuild kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.src.rpm
> 
> and got this error:
> 
> error: Architecture is not included: i386
> 
> I then tried to un-tar the kernel tar.bz2 file, which worked just file,
> but VMWare doesn't accept the vanilla 2.6.15 kernel.
> 
> Where do I go to from here?

Stop your plan, then:

yum install kernel-devel

then proceed as usual.

-Andy
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