I'm trying to install the vmware tools on Fedora 18. I've done it with Fedora 17 by installing kernel-devel and kernel-headers, but it doesn't work on FEdora 18. I keep getting a message saying it can't find a valid path for the kernel headers.
Let's try the following:
Hope this help!
None of this did work for me. I am somewhat of a linux-newbie trying to install vmware player on my machine.
uname -r
3.7.8-202.fc18.x86_64
rpm -qa|grep kernel
kernel-devel-3.7.8-202.fc18.x86_64
abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.0.20-1.fc18.x86_64 kernel-modules-extra-3.7.8-202.fc18.x86_64
kernel-tools-libs-3.7.8-202.fc18.x86_64
kernel-3.7.8-202.fc18.x86_64
libreport-plugin-kerneloops-2.0.20-1.fc18.x86_64
kernel-2.6.43.8-1.fc15.x86_64
kernel-headers-3.7.8-202.fc18.x86_64
kernel-tools-3.7.8-202.fc18.x86_64
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.7.8-202.fc18.x86_64
kernel-3.6.11-4.fc16.x86_64
kernel-3.7.6-102.fc17.x86_64
but there is nothing but the copied "version.h" in following location (maybe there should be more?)
ls /lib/modules/3.7.8-202.fc18.x86_64/build/include/linux/
version.h
like many others I always get the following error when I'm trying to start VMware player:
Before you can run VMware, several modules must be compiled and loaded into the running kernel.
Kernel Headers 3.7.8-202.fc18.x8664
Kernel headers for version 3.7.8-.... were not found. If you....
Thanks in advance!
UPDATE: For newer revisions of the kernel, try:
cp /usr/include/linux/version.h /lib/modules/3.7.2-**XXX**.fc18.x86_64/build/include/linux/
Where XXX is the revision number e.g. 204
I have the same problem but the fix did not work for me. I think I have all the kernel packages installed:
$ rpm -qa|grep kernel
kernel-3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64
Kernel-headers-3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64
kernel-tools-3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64
libreport-plugin-kerneloops-2.0.20-1.fc18.x86_64
kernel-3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64
abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.0.20-1.fc18.x86_64
kernel-tools-libs-3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64
kernel-modules-extra-3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64
kernel-modules-extra-3.7.2-204.fc18.x86_64
kernel-3.7.2-204.fc18.x86_64
kernel-modules-extra-3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64
I also copied version.h over as suggested:
$ ls -lFa /lib/modules/3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64/build/include/linux/version.h
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 97 Feb 1 20:39 /lib/modules/3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64/build/include/linux/version.h
I also tried pointing VMWare to the directory where version.h is just above, and it complained that I don't have the C headers for my kernel.
Any other things to try? Do I have to uninstall the older kernel stuff?
Thanks.
The version.h file is missing in /lib/modules/3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64/build/include/linux/ Therefore, the scrip is not able to get the right path to fetch the other header files.
The following will fix the problem by copying the version.h to the folder:
cp /usr/include/linux/version.h /lib/modules/3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64/build/include/linux/
This failed for me on Player 4.0.6 / Fedora 18 Live installed to HD plus updates (Kernel 3.8.3-203 , yum install gcc make kernel-devel etc.) The vmware-config-tools.pl proceeded but most of the modules still failed to compile, and the X server was also not detected. So not much point having the tools.
This worked for me using Fedora 19 and kernel 3.9.9-302.fc19.x86_64
cp /usr/include/linux/version.h /lib/modules/3.7.2-204.fc18.x86_64/build/include/linux/
Works here!
Did you install kernel-devel? (And once you do, you might have to run the cp version.h command again.)
Asked: 2013-01-15 23:07:24 -0600
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