FC5 in VMWare can't compile VMWare Tools

[bigman921]

Hello,

I just installed FC5 into a VMWare 5 workstation and am having issues building the vmtools. I've installed the kernel-devel package but whenever I try to compile the tools I get the error:

The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the same address space size as your running kernel

What's going on here?

Thx

[mattsm]

Take a look at this post:

http://kororaa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1626

It is not supposed to apply, but it seems to work non the less.

[luyun]

I have the quastion ,who can tell me how to resolve it ?
thank you!

[vk3jma]

I am also experiencing issues with installing vmware tools.

I have vmware 4.5.2 running under Win XP SP2 and have installed
an "office/productivity" install of FC5. All works well except that
vmtools perl script aborts and wants to be installed outside Xwindows.

I have tried to swap to a console session (ctrl-alt-F2...) but the system does
not want to switch sessions. I tried running "init 3" from a terminal in X but the
system hung and did nothing for ages.

How can I get into a normal console session so as I can install vmtools?

Regards

Mark

[psyklops]

This is covered all over the forums. You may want to search...

Mark, you should upgrade from 4.5.2 to 5.5.1 at the least. You should be entitled to it with your existing VMWare license.

[luyun]

psyklops!!
I can't understand you said exactly!
can you say the details ?which kernel and kernel-dev you used ?
I used 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5-i686 kernel and kernel-dev but the kernel defined by this directory of header files does have the same address space size as your running kernel !!

[Gu3st]

http://tredosoft.com/node/9
this will help u.

good luck
suresh