Montana Quiring wrote:
Hello,
I would appreciate any advice on this.
I'm using the latest Vmware Fusion on a Mac. In a VM image I've installed Ubuntu 8.4 Remix (it's the one that Dell tweaked for the Dell Mini's) The next step was to install the vmware tools since I had no networking... When I run: sudo ./vmware-install.pl ...the install ticks along OK until I get to this point:
<SNIP> None of the pre-built vmmemctl modules for VMware Tools is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmemctl 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] /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16/include
The path "/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16/include" is a kernel header file directory, but it does not contain the file "linux/version.h" as expected. This can happen if the kernel has never been built, or if you have invoked the "make mrproper" command in your kernel directory. In any case, you may want to rebuild your kernel.
What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
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NOTE: I had to copy across (on a USB flash drive) and install the header files as they weren't already there (from what I could find)
I've started the process of preparing to recompile the kernel, but got stuck in deb package hell trying to satisfy the dependancies of build-essential
Can anyone offer any advice about how to get networking working, as that would make getting everything else working easier.
I don't know if the situation has changed. However it turns out I had to do a separate install of C in order to get VMWare to work on an older install. The deb of gtk-gnutella will do it (apt-get install gtk-gnutella). Unfortunately the version in the repositories will install an out of date gtk-gnutella and may not work. Trying to install C by itself didn't work out too well for me.
You may want to try VirtualBox. It seems to work fairly well. Their documents say they can run a VM from VMWare, but it didn't work when I tried it on a Mac about six months ago.
Later Mike