Re: VMWare package

[Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net>]

On Monday 17 February 2003 06:18 pm, Kent West wrote:
> Greg Norris wrote:
> >1) The kernel headers need to *exactly* match your running kernel.  If
> >your using a distribution kernel, there should be a matching
> >kernel-headers-* package that you can install.  If you compile your
> >own, be sure to hang onto the headers after building.  The easiest way
> >to do this is to use make-kpkg, and have it generate a kernel-headers
> >package for you.
>
> Having just done this today, I'll point out that when you install the
> kernel-headers, it creates several directories under /usr/src, like:
> kernel-header-2.4.20-386
>   and
> kernel-header-2.4.20-586
>   and etc. You'll need to point the vmware-config.pl script to the
> correct directory, but you'll have to dive one level deeper, into
> "include" I believe, when the script asks for the path.
>
> Kent

On a recent install of Vmware the config script suggested the following 
path to the 'include' dir. I am not sure if this means you don't need a 
headers package though.
'/lib/modules/2.4.19-SMP/build/include/'
-- 
Greg Madden