I was in the process of installing VMWare Server 1.0.3 via the tarball I downloaded from their site. When it asked for the C header files for my installed kernel (2.6.18-6), hey could not be found. When I initially installed CentOS, I made sure everything was included, so I am at a loss why they can not be found. I haven't tried installing it via the RPM, but I don't think it will make a difference. Any and all thoughts are appreciated. Thanks! Mark
Marko A. Jennings
2007-Jun-29 19:03 UTC
[CentOS] Installing VMWare Server 1.0.3 on CentOS 5
On Fri, June 29, 2007 2:55 pm, Mark Rose wrote:> I was in the process of installing VMWare Server 1.0.3 via the tarball I > downloaded from their site. When it asked for the C header files for my > installed kernel (2.6.18-6), hey could not be found. When I initially > installed CentOS, I made sure everything was included, so I am at a loss > why they can not be found. I haven't tried installing it via the RPM, but > I don't think it will make a difference. Any and all thoughts are > appreciated. Thanks! > > MarkYou are probably missing the kernel-devel package (or kernel-PAE-devel, depending on which kernel you are running).
Mark Rose wrote:> I was in the process of installing VMWare Server 1.0.3 via the tarball I downloaded from their site. When it asked for the C header files for my installed kernel (2.6.18-6), hey could not be found. When I initially installed CentOS, I made sure everything was included, so I am at a loss why they can not be found. I haven't tried installing it via the RPM, but I don't think it will make a difference. Any and all thoughts are appreciated. Thanks! >You need to install kernel-devel -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070629/1a85877b/attachment.sig>
Mark this is a running problem with fedora, and I don't think that vmware has released an update for RHEL5 yet, so what I would do is go look for vmware-any-any-update* patch and run this when trying to compile vmware server from your host. Here's a link to a post that leads to the patch http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=635622򛋦 , I think eventually vmware will come out with a new version that will compile correctly and I suspect it will be in the next release but this should work for now. I always run fedora core for my host o/s and have to use the patch everytime, I use centos o/s for my guests...go figure, in my main box I run myth and its easier to get eorking with fedora...:) Hope this helps. On 6/29/07, Mark Rose <mrose77 at charter.net> wrote:> > I was in the process of installing VMWare Server 1.0.3 via the tarball I > downloaded from their site. When it asked for the C header files for my > installed kernel (2.6.18-6), hey could not be found. When I initially > installed CentOS, I made sure everything was included, so I am at a loss why > they can not be found. I haven't tried installing it via the RPM, but I > don't think it will make a difference. Any and all thoughts are > appreciated. Thanks! > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070629/b75cbf20/attachment.html>
On 6/29/07, Mark Rose <mrose77 at charter.net> wrote:> I was in the process of installing VMWare Server 1.0.3 via the tarball I downloaded from their site. When it asked for the C header files for my installed kernel (2.6.18-6), hey could not be found. When I initially installed CentOS, I made sure everything was included, so I am at a loss why they can not be found. I haven't tried installing it via the RPM, but I don't think it will make a difference. Any and all thoughts are appreciated. Thanks! > > MarkOnce you have the kernel-devel package installed, I believe you need to make a link called /usr/src/linux from the actual location of the kernel headers. Sorry I can't be more specific. I did that a month or so ago, and I'm not at that machine right now.