[CentOS] VMWare Server Install Problem

Tue Feb 12 12:42:26 UTC 2008
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Feb 12, 2008 4:33 AM, Alfredo Perez <alfredoj69 at rogers.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:43:38PM +1000, Harry Sukumar wrote:
> > Good Day All,
> >
> > I have issues installing VMware Server on CentOS 5, its asking for the
> > location of c header files, i have installed them all but i am still
> > unable to install VMWare Server
> >
> > here is the output
> >
> > What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
> > running
> > kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
> > 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? [/usr/src/linux/include]
> >
> I think you need to install the kernel sources

You do not need the full kernel source to install vmware server.  Just
kernel-headers and kernel-devel (or kernel-(foo-)devel) packages.