VMware and C header files

[Cameron Hutchison]

Once upon a time piltdown said...
> Trying to install VMware but am getting stuck on the location of the C
> header files.
> 
> uname tells me I am running 2.6.8.1-4-386
> 
> In /usr/src I have a directory called /linux-headers-2.6.8.1-4-386 but in
> response to the VMware setup question:
> 
> "What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
> running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]" I specify
> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.8.1-4-386 and VMware responds with:
> 
> The path "/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.8.1-4-386/include" is an existing
> directory, but it does not contain at least one of these directories "linux",
> "asm", "net" as expected.

You need to add /include to the end of that path. eg.
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.8.1-4-386/include