Re: trying to run VMwareworkstation 3.0.0-1455..says I have wrong kernel headers

[Walter Tautz <wtautz@math.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Jor-el wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Walter Tautz wrote:
> 
> > during the run of vmware-config.pl it keeps asking for the
> > location of the kernel headers, so I tell it /usr/include
> > but it complains: (I am running testing (woody)):
> > 
> > ------------- Begining of config log------------------
> > 
> > What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
> > kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] /usr/include
> > 
> > The directory of kernel headers (version 2.4.13) does not match your running
> > kernel (version 2.2.19).  Even if the module were to compile successfully, it
> > would not load into the running kernel.
> > 
> Walter,
> 
> 	That output you quote above is somewhat surprising to me. When I
> installed it, instead of pointing to /usr/src/linux/include , the default
> was pointing to something like /lib/modules/2.4.15-pre1/build/include/
> for me. I was a bit surprised by that, but it appears that 'make
> modules_install" puts the headers there. I didnt have any other modules,
> but I did a 'make modules_install' and things worked out fine for me.
> 

Yes, I reinstalled the kernel from source and after doing this the installer
does what you describe above, i,e. it finds the build directory in modules
which points back to where I had unpacked the source.

-walter