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After updating to Fedora 18, VMWare 9.0.1 will not compile because it cannot find the correct version.h file. Simple fix is to create a symlink and vmware will compile the needed modules.
After updating to Fedora 18, VMWare 9.0.1 will not compile because it cannot find the correct version.h file. Simple fix is to create a symlink and vmware will compile the needed modules.
First make sure that the compiler and header packages are installed.
yum install gcc kernel-devel kernel-headers


The following command will create the link.
The following command will create the link.


  ln -s /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/linux/version.h
  ln -s /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/linux/version.h

Revision as of 00:25, 16 January 2013

Getting VMWare 9 to compile in fc18

After updating to Fedora 18, VMWare 9.0.1 will not compile because it cannot find the correct version.h file. Simple fix is to create a symlink and vmware will compile the needed modules.

First make sure that the compiler and header packages are installed.

yum install gcc kernel-devel kernel-headers

The following command will create the link.

ln -s /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/linux/version.h