Problems installing VMWare

[Tapas Mishra]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Mark <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:13 AM, nitin chandra <nitinchandra1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> I have not tried VMware Player but if helps with concept.....
>>
>> Updated headers and as much as basic installation files.
>> I have installed VMware server 2.0.2 with a patch on my Ubuntu 10.04
>> and it works along with FireFox 3.5.9.
>>
>> I currently have 4 vm runnng on it .... 2 64-bit Ubuntu (Guest OS), 1
>> 32-bit Ubuntu (Guest OS) and WindowsXPsp2 (test platform)
>>
> Tried again tonight.  All goes well until this:
>
> None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Server is suitable for your
> running kernel.  Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for
> your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes]
>
> Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.
>
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
>
> The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory.
>
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic
>
> The path "/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic" is an existing directory,
> but it does not contain a "linux" subdirectory as expected.
>
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22
>
> The path "/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22" is an existing directory, but it
> does not contain a "linux" subdirectory as expected.
>
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
>
> Here is what's in /usr/src:
>
> $ ls /usr/src
> linux-headers-2.6.35-22/  linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic/
>
> And, yes, there is no "linux" subdirectory under either one:
>
> $ ls /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22
> arch/           drivers/   init/    lib/      samples/   tools/
> block/          firmware/  ipc/     Makefile  scripts/   ubuntu/
> crypto/         fs/        Kbuild   mm/       security/  usr/
> Documentation/  include/   kernel/  net/      sound/     virt/
> $ ls /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic/
> arch/           drivers@   init@    lib@            net@       sound@   usr@
> block@          firmware@  ipc@     Makefile@       samples@   source@  virt@
> crypto@         fs@        Kbuild@  mm@             scripts/   tools@
> Documentation@  include/   kernel/  Module.symvers  security@  ubuntu@
>
> So what the <bleep> is it looking for and where "should" it be?
>
> I have the latest updated kernel headers installed....
>
> (Foo)
>
> Mark

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