[KLUG Members] VMware with RedHat 7.1 w/ XFS

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>>I am running the latest 2.x VMware on a recent BS-Ware PRO all XFS
>>box for several hours a day.  So it does work.  The modules built without
>>complaint.
>Here is what it tells me: this is with VMware 3.0 beta btw..
>make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
>make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
>make[2]: Entering directory 
>`/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.3-SGI_XFS
>_1.0.1'
>In file included from ../linux/driver-config.h:38,
>                 from .././linux/driver.c:11:
>/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use 
>kernel-headers system headers,
>/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:2:2: #error but headers from an
>appropriate 
>kernel-sourcemake[2]: *** [driver.d] Error 1
>make[2]: Leaving directory 
>`/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.3-SGI_XFS_
>1.0.1'
>make[1]: *** [deps] Error 2
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
>make: *** [auto-build] Error 2
>make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
>Unable to build the vmmon module.
>It said something about kernel header (just as you siad) but i dont
>quite  understand what it wants me to do, or how do it.

Let us see the output of -

rpm -qa | grep -i kernel

uname -a

head -4 /usr/src/linux/Makefile


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