FC4 => FC5 Upgrade & VMWare

[Chris Ruprecht]

Andy,

that didn't do it ...

I tried that first, last night still, and it didn't get me anywhere. I
removed it again today and tried again:

yum install kernel-devel
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
core
[1/1]
core                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 767 kB
00:02
core      : ################################################## 2207/2207
Added 2207 new packages, deleted 0 old in 16.56 seconds
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for kernel-devel to pack into transaction set.
kernel-devel-2.6.15-1.205 100% |=========================| 1.0 MB
00:02
---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 set to be installed
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository
Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 kernel-devel            i686       2.6.15-1.2054_FC5  core
4.7 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
Total download size: 4.7 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): kernel-devel-2.6.1 100% |=========================| 4.7 MB
00:11
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing: kernel-devel                 #########################
[1/1]

Installed: kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
Complete!
[root at ganymede cache]# ll /usr/src
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 21 12:26 kernels
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Feb 12 04:16 redhat


There is still no /usr/src/linux/include directory.
I also tried to find 'version.h' that vmware-config is looking for, but
I didn't find one for the kernel I'm running.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Chris


On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 16:16 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> 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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