Problem Installing VMware Tools in Fedora-9

[Doyle Rhynard]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 16:11 -0700, Doyle Rhynard wrote:
>   
>> I am having a problem installing VMware Tools in a Fedora-9 VM that I 
>> created using the latest version of Workstation-6. I keep getting the 
>> error message: "The directory of kernel headers (@@VMWARE@@ UTS RELEASE) 
>> does not match your running kernel version (2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64)" when 
>> it tries to patch the kernel. I have installed several previous version 
>> of Fedora on VMware and never encountered a problem like this.
>>
>> I checked that 
>> fedora-9-x86_64-DVD/Packages/kernel-headers-2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64rpm file 
>> using "rpm -qpl" was what was installed at "/usr/include". I even made a 
>> link under "/usr/src/linux/include" to match the directory structure 
>> that VMware Tools was expecting, but got the same result.
>>
>> I have seen several messages asking for assistance with Fedora-9 
>> installed with VMware, so it would appear that others have been able to 
>> do it successfully. It is quite possible that I have made some 
>> unintentional mistake somewhere that I am unable to find.
>>
>> Unfortunately, VMware does not support Fedora because it considers it to 
>> be too experimental and unstable, which is probably accurate, especially 
>> for version 9, so I cannot ask there. If anyone in Fedora-Land has had a 
>> similar experience or has any ideas about how to solve this problem, let 
>> me know.
>>     
>
> You need to run vmware-config.pl (as root). If that doesn't work, Google
> for vmware-any-any-update117.tar.gz (or anything later than 117),
> download, untar and run the runme.pl script (again as root).
>
> poc
>
>
>   
As far as I can determine, this is a patch to the Workstation program 
running on a Linux host and not the Fedora Guest . I am running with a 
Windows host for which this patch is not applicable. Please tell me if 
this is incorrect.