On Saturday 20 December 2003 06:27 pm, Ken Schneider wrote:

-----Original Message----- From: Rocco Charamella To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:11:00 -0800 Subject: [SLE] Install vmware on Suse 9

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I'm trying to install vmware 3.2 on Suse 9. I've installed the kernel-source from the cd and vmware from vmware and km_vmware from suse cd. When I run vmware-config.pl (as root) I get a message

"What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? /usr/src/linux/include"

If I hit enter, I get this response

"The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is an existing directory, but it does not contain at least one of these directories "linux", "asm", "net" as expected."

I checked the folders in that path, it's right there is not one asm folder, but a whole bunch of asm folders. There's asm-(with a bunch of different folders).

What do I need to do to make this work? Thanks for your help

It never will work as VMware 3.x is -not- supported for SuSE 9.0.

You need to go www.vmware.com and browse their tech suport pages.

I ended up upgrading to 4.x to get vmware to run. The modules supplied with the kernel work perfectly.

Ken Yes, I am able to use VMware 4.x and run kernel 2.4.23. It happily uses my kernel source and builds their own modules from it. Works beautifully. BTW I use SuSE 8.2, but its approx. the same deal. All you're dealing with right now is VMWare and kernel sources. --

Eric Bambach Eric at cisu dot net -------------------------

On Wednesday 24 December 2003 04:33 pm, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

Quoting Eric : [snip]

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Yes, I am able to use VMware 4.x and run kernel 2.4.23. It happily uses my kernel source and builds their own modules from it. Works beautifully. BTW I use SuSE 8.2, but its approx. the same deal. All you're dealing with right now is VMWare and kernel sources.

Do you need to use the apic kernel/boot parameter? Nope, I simply boot with lilo and a blank append line. I believe the kernel complains mildly about something or other about the apic, but I have not encountered any real trouble. TIA, Jeffrey

-- ------------------------- Eric Bambach Eric at cisu dot net -------------------------