Updating VMWare after new Kernel
As I am running Ubuntu, I get kernel updates automatically.. This is cool and fine except that VMWare is built for each kernel. Once the kernel is updated VMWare stops.
Its not like I use VMWare every day, but its still a hassle to remember what to do when the kernel is updated.
So here are the steps..
1. Install the kernel headers
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.15-27-386
2. Run vmware-config.pl
Answer everyting by default, when it gets to the question about the linux headers enter /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-27-386/include
What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-27-386/includeExtracting the sources of the vmmon module.
3. Run the newly compiled vmware
steve@steve-laptop:~/downloads/vmware-distrib$ vmware
Your done, simple now you know.. Just as an aside u might have to change the kernel version numbers, this can be identified by running uname -a from a prompt to get the settings.
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