[Lustre-discuss] VMware error on lustre client

[Robert LeBlanc]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Dam Thanh Tung <tungdt at isds.vn> wrote:

> Poor me! The weekend started with new error in my lustre system.
>
> I have just installed lustren on my Centos 5.3 PC,all the package i used is
>
>
> e2fsprogs-1.40.11.sun1-0redhat.rhel5.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-lustre-smp-2.6.18-92.1.17.el5_lustre.1.8.0.x86_64.rpm
> lustre-1.8.0-2.6.18_92.1.17.el5_lustre.1.8.0smp.x86_64.rpm
> lustre-client-1.8.0-2.6.18_92.1.17.el5_lustre.1.8.0smp.x86_64.rpm
> lustre-client-modules-1.8.0-2.6.18_92.1.17.el5_lustre.1.8.0smp.x86_64.rpm
> lustre-ldiskfs-3.0.8-2.6.18_92.1.17.el5_lustre.1.8.0smp.x86_64.rpm
> lustre-modules-1.8.0-2.6.18_92.1.17.el5_lustre.1.8.0smp.x86_64.rpm
>
> Everything worked well.( I used my PC as a lustre client and copy some
> file, it's OK ).  Now when i install VMware workstation 6.5 by rpm package
> VMware-Workstation-6.5.1-126130.x86_64.rpm
> The install process finished without any error. But when i try to start
> VMware, there is an error on my screen, it said that:
>
> C header files matching your running kernel were not found.
> Refer to your distribution's documentation for installation instructions
>
> So i can't use VMware. Anyone can help me to resolv it,please ?
>
> You will need to get the source RPMs for the kernel and build VMware's
modules against it. Since you are not using the stock CentOS kernel, there
is not a provided kernel from VMware. I've had to always build my VMware
modules on Debian. I'm not very familiar with CentOS so I can't give you
details about how to do it.

Robert LeBlanc
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