VMware install *arg!*

[mark]

Joshua Gimer wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 2:26 PM, mark <m.roth2006 at rcn.com> wrote:
>> So I'm trying to install. The install script is fine. Then it gets to the point
>> where it offers to run vmware-config. Fine. It wants kernel headers. I wind up
>> having to install the entire kernel source.
>>
>> And VMware complains it can't find version.h, and tells me that I might want to
>> recompile my kernel.
>>
>> I DO NOT WANT TO COMPILE MY FRIGGIN" KERNEL. Anyone know if there's *any* way
>> around this?
>>
> How are you installing the kernel sources? What is the output of 'rpm
> -qa | grep -i kernel' ?
> 
kernel-source-2.6.22.5-31
linux-kernel-headers-2.6.22-19
nfs-kernel-server-1.1.0-8
kernel-default-2.6.22.5-31
kernel-syms-2.6.22.5-31

And I give it the path to the source (not sure why I have that other version of
the headers). It still complains it can't find include/linux/version.h

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