Vahis 

>>> Reply on 14-11-2006 9:18:07 <<<> Andreas Hanke wrote:
> > Vahis schrieb:
> >  
> >> Everything is as It's says there. But the script keeps coming to
> this:
> >>
> >> The directory of kernel headers (version @@VMWARE@@ UTS_RELEASE)
> does
> >> not match
> >> your running kernel (version 2.6.18.2-4-default).  Even if the
> module
> >> were to
> >> compile successfully, it would not load into the running kernel.
> >>    
> >
> > Again:
> >
> > You need to install the kernel-source package.
> >  
>
> I have. I always do that.
>
> I have made instructions on my site for installing vmware by the time
> 10.0 came out.
> This is also mentioned there, but now following my own instructions
> that
> worked then, don't work anymore :(
>
> > The linux-kernel-headers package is not usable to build external
> kernel
> > modules; whether it matches the running kernel or not is if no
> importance.
> >
> > The important thing is that the commands
> >
> > rpm -q kernel-default
> > rpm -q kernel-source
> >
> > return exactly the same version.
> >  
> vahis@virbeta2:~> rpm -q kernel-default
> kernel-default-2.6.18.2-4
>
> vahis@virbeta2:~> rpm -q kernel-source
> kernel-source-2.6.18.2-4
> mcman@virbeta2:~>
>

That's quiet odd. I really just installed the kernel-source, then started vmware-config-tools.pl and it compiled it perfectly.

Be sure to point to the right include in /usr/src/linux/include when it asks for (but most probably you did this).

 

Then, I did not have any problems.

 

Maybe it could be worth checking the file /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h ?

Just to be sure?

 

Another idea could come from an upgrade path you made, that the link /usr/src/linux is not pointing to the right place at yours.

 

Dominique