[plug] Fedora 6 / vmware question

[Ian Kent]

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 21:32 +0800, Chris Griffin wrote:
> Greetings folks,
> 
> I have installed Fedora 6 under VMware (workstation 5.5.1 build-19175)
> and installed the VMware tools. Trouble is when I try to run:
> 
> /usr/bin/vmware-config-tool.pl
> 
> it gets to the stage of asking for the location of the header files. I
> created a link to the correct version so that it would find them via
> their default path:
> 
> /usr/src/linux/include

No. That's not the default path and that's not the way to do it either.
Install the kernel-devel package.

> 
> but then all I end up with is:
> 
> "The directory of kernel headers (version @@VMWARE@@ UTS_RELEASE) does
> not match your running kernel (version 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6). Even if the
> module were to compile successfully, it would not load into the
> running kernel."
> 
> But it is not true, I am running kernel 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6. Why would
> it come up with the:
> 
> "@@VMWARE@@ UTS_RELEASE"?
> 
> Any help appreciated.

Update vmware.
linux/config.h doesn't have UTS_RELEASE anymore.

Ian