Installing VMWare Tools

[Guest dtharby]

Hi,

 

I am a newbie to the Linux arena and thought that i would try out as I got this on a cover dvd.

 

Mandrake has installed, I said No to auto booting the KDE. I selected as much as possible to install.

 

When I run the VMWare Tools installation, it asks for the location of the kernel C header files.

 

Looking under /usr/src I have no Include or Linux directories. Only RPM.

 

Can someone tell me what I have done wrong and what I need to do to get this working !

 

Thanks

 

Danny

 

[moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman]

[devries]

You need to install the kernel-source: Type as root in a console: urpmi kernel-source

 

Good luck

[Guest dtharby]

Thanks... that worked... now I have a problem in that once the script for the tools completes I get a problem with XFree86 version.... attached is screenshot.

 

Also I have enabled shared folders and restarted linux but there is nothing under /mnt/hgfs

 

Any help would be appreciated

 

Thanks

 

Danny

:D

[Guest majqa]

I posted some instructions here on what I did to get Mandrake to work in vmware:

 

http://speakforcefully.blogspot.com/2004/1...nto-vmware.html

 

Hope it helps.

I had the same problem.

 

Revised 12-07-04

 

I made a mistake in my instructions as a few things changed from Mandrake 10.1 CE and 10.1 Official. The new instructions hopefully work for 10.1 Official.

Edited December 8, 2004 by majqa