VMWare install

[dmartin at LanCity.COM (Derek Martin)]

On 1 Aug 1999, Kyle Rose wrote:

> 
> > I've finally gotten around to checking out all the vmware hype, and when I
> > go to install the sucker, I run into a problem because I'm running kernel
> > 2.2.10 and not a kernel for which there are packaged modules.  It crashes
> > out of trying to build the drivers because it cannot locate
> > linux/version.h.  After thinking about it, I noticed that I've run
> > into this problem when trying to compile a few things (windowmaker, rxvt).
> > I've done a pretty-much-full install of RH 6.0, and all the libraries
> > should be where they need to be.  Where is this phantom version.h?
> > Perhaps a symlink I haven't put in?  Any idea on a package I may not have
> > installed that I should have?  Please help.
> 
> Generally, this kind of error implies that you don't have a kernel
> installed in /usr/src/linux.  I'm not quite sure how RH handles
> /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm, but I believe most systems
> (Debian not included. =( ) have links to /usr/src/linux/include/linux
> and /usr/src/linux/include/asm, respectively.  Check for this on your
> system, and if there's no kernel in /usr/src/linux, that's your
> problem.
> 

After reading Kyle's post I remembered running into this myself... after
installing the kernel source (i.e. not the RPM, from tarball) there was a
symlink missing that I had to create.  It was one of the one you
mentioned.


Derek D. Martin           |  UNIX System Administrator
d_martin at worldnet.att.net |  dmartin at lancity.com

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