On Sunday 12 February 2006 10:21, Jan Johansson wrote: > I am about to set up a new VMWare host since VMWare Server is now a > free application. > > I have understood that in order to complie the various modules, you > "must" use the exact same GCC for the kernel as for the module. > > Now, if I want to grab linux-image-2.6.15-686-smp and make sure I can > build the VMWare modules how would I go about doing that? > > Can I download the kernel source and make an "exact copy" of the > prepackaged kernel somehow? As in, all modules compiled the same way > and so forth? > > Any hints appreciated!
Vmware is the guest or contains the guest OS, running, hopefully , on a Debian host :-) All you need is the headers for the running kernel. Grab the header package that is the same version/revision as your kernel package. When you install Vmware, Vmware knows the path to the headers and can compile the modules it needs. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
