[olug] Fedora 13 and VMWare Workstation 6.5.4

[Rob Townley]

not on F13 yet, but kernel-source? may help.  i have compiled a couple
of things this year on f11 snd f12 in which headers were not enough.
After installing headers and _source_ for glibc?, libc?, kernel,
compiles went fine.



On 5/26/10, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> Anyone else trying to get VMWare Workstation to install and run under Fedora
> 13 x86_64?
>
> The first time I try to run VMWare (as root or as a user), it wants to
> compile their modules (normal).  At the command line it dies with this:
> [root at titan2 ~]# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
> gcc and kernel headers must be installed
>
> I've installed and removed/re-installed the gcc and kernel-headers a couple
> times and still get the same error.
> [root at titan2 ~]# rpm -qa | egrep 'headers|gcc'
> gcc-4.4.4-2.fc13.x86_64
> glibc-headers-2.12-1.x86_64
> libgcc-4.4.4-2.fc13.x86_64
> kernel-headers-2.6.33.4-95.fc13.x86_64
>
> All my Googling and searching the VMWare forums hasn't produced anything.
>
> Anyone else got any ideas?
>
> Dan
>
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