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Using Fedora 7 Moonlinght - and having trouble installing vmware pls help

hello every one,

i am currently using Fedora 7 Moonlight Ver with "2.6.20-2925.11.fc7xen" version of Kernels loaded on my system i have tried to install vmware workstations twice on my machine and this is the output when i tried it the second time

Installation message

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A previous installation of VMware Workstation has been detected.

The previous installation was made by the tar installer (version 4).

Keeping the tar4 installer database format.

Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Workstation.

Stopping VMware services:

Virtual machine monitor \[ OK ]

The removal of VMware Workstation 6.0.0 build-45731 for Linux completed

successfully. Thank you for having tried this software.

Installing VMware Workstation. This may take from several minutes to over an

hour depending upon its size.

In which directory do you want to install the binary files?

What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?

What is the directory that contains the init scripts?

In which directory do you want to install the daemon files?

In which directory do you want to install the library files?

The path "/usr/lib/vmware" does not exist currently. This program is going to

create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?

\[yes]

In which directory do you want to install the manual files?

In which directory do you want to install the documentation files?

The path "/usr/share/doc/vmware" does not exist currently. This program is

going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?

\[yes]

The installation of VMware Workstation 6.0.0 build-45731 for Linux completed

successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any

time by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall.pl".

Before running VMware Workstation for the first time, you need to configure it

by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl". Do you want

this program to invoke the command for you now? \[yes]

Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped.

Stopping VMware services:

Virtual machine monitor \[ OK ]

Configuring fallback GTK+ 2.4 libraries.

In which directory do you want to install the theme icons?

What directory contains your desktop menu entry files? These files have a

.desktop file extension.

In which directory do you want to install the application's icon?

Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation 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)? \[no] 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?

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? /lib/modules/2.6.20-2925.11.fc7xen/ build/include

The path "/lib/modules/2.6.20-2925.11.fc7xen/ build/include" is not an existing

directory.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running

kernel?

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? /lib/modules/2.6.20-2925.11.fc7xen/build/include

The path "/lib/modules/2.6.20-2925.11.fc7xen/build/include" is not an existing

directory.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running

kernel?

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I would like to know what could i do in this case.

thanks in advance

Surut

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Grogan
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You need to install the corresponding kernel-devel package for your running kernel. Not sure how you're going to make out with the Xen kernel. You might consider installing or booting the standard kernel and the corresponding kernel-devel package.

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