FC4 => FC5 Upgrade & VMWare

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Chris Ruprecht wrote:

> Andy,
>
> that didn't do it ...
>
>[...]
>
>
> 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?

Plenty of discussion about this issue in the discussion groups at 
www.vmware.com.  Looks like some workarounds, though I haven't tried them 
yet.

Let us know how it goes for you.

>
> 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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