VMWare

scott8711 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Oct 2002 Posts: 145

I am trying to install VMware on my machne. It does not have any prebuilt modules that will work so it wants to build them. it asks me for the location of my header files but I cannot find them in either gentoo or Redhat.

For gentoo I gave it "/usr/src/linux/include"

For RedHat I gave it "/usr/src/linux/include" and "/usr/src/linuc-2.4.18-18.8.0/include"

Does anyone know the corect location for each OS or is ther someother software I have to install first. I installed all packages with RedHat.

Thanks

Scott

scocou · Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2002 4:06 am Post subject:

I found the default locations to work properly, just hit <enter> when asked where your sources are. I always had either the gentoo-sources or xfs-sources as well as linux-headers (or whatever the ebuild is called) installed to the default locations. This was VMWare 3.x under Gentoo 1.4RCx. Oh, I just noticed you didn't specify your method of installing VMWare. Did you use the Gentoo ebuild or did you 'roll your own' sources? If the latter I would strongly suggest using the ebuild, it's much more convenient. BTW I think the kernel include files are in /usr/include but I'm a noob so beware.