> On Jan 12, 2024, at 20:59, Sherman Grunewagen via users > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On 11/01/2024 13.48, Jonathan Billings wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 03:36:32PM -0800, Sherman Grunewagen via users >>> wrote: >>> Hello all. >>> >>> Does anyone have VMware Workstation Pro 17.5.0 running with any of the >>> later 6.6.X kernels? >>> >>> I'm having a hard time getting it to run with a Fedora 38 >>> installation. I'm fully updated as of 2 days ago, including the 6.6.9 >>> kernel. When I try to start Workstation directly after VMware >>> installation I get a popup saying that the kernel-headers package for >>> kernel-6.6.9 is missing and so it can't build some modules. the problem is >>> that >>> the kernel-headers package for 6.6.9 is missing from Updates. The latest >>> package is >>> for 6.6.3. >> >> Does the popup actually say that you need a newer kernel-headers >> package? Because we should provide feedback to VMWare that what >> they're really asking for is a kernel-devel package for the running >> kernel. The kernel-headers package is just for compiling userspace >> programs, and only is updated when there's an API change that affects >> userspace. >> >> I suspect that the "headers" part is coming from the Debian/Ubuntu >> world, because I think their kernel source is in a linux-headers >> package. >> > > Yes, the popup explicitly says that the 6.6.9 headers are needed (as I'm > running kernel-6.6.9). > Here's a screenshot of the popup: <http://tinyurl.com/VMwarePop>. (I don't > know how to make > hot links. :-))
Ah, it doesn’t explicitly say “kernel-headers”. I realize it’s confusing, but the headers for any librarypackage in Fedora is called $name-devel, so to maintain consistency, it’s a kernel-devel package. The kernel-headers are a subset of kernel headers that are used by glibc and related packages to compile userland executables, not kernel modules. -- Jonathan Billings -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
