Installing VMware server

[alan]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Ric Moore wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 10:06 +0100, Ambrogio wrote:
>> Il giorno mar, 16/01/2007 alle 22.37 +0000, John Bowden ha scritto:
>>> /tmp/vmware-config5/vmnet-only/procfs.c:33:26: error: linux/config.h: No
>>> such file or directory
>>
>> Try to create an empty file called config.h
>>
>> touch /usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`/include/config.h
>>
>> This should be all that you need
>
> It blows my mind that I have to do that with each new kernel. What's up
> with that? It would be great to get an explanation. Ric

config.h was depricated a while back.  There used to be a symlink from 
autoconf.h to config.h in include/linux.  (I have not used the empty file 
as described above. I link it to what it is supposed to be. I don't know 
if it makes a difference.)  A few programs that build kernel modules still 
have problem with the missing config.h.  NVIDIA fixed this a while ago. 
VMWare has not.  (VMWare tools also has compile problems which have never 
been fixed.  There are some third-party hacks to fix some of those 
issues.)

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