Dear friends: I have just spent a very frustrating three hours trying to install VMware on my Linux-Mandrake 6.1. I have no idea what's going on, but I have tried just about everything a non-techie can try. I have tried to install both the rpm and the tar.gz file. Below is the final section of my attempt to install the VMWARE tarball: None of VMware's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for your running kernel. Doyou want this script to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes] What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] Extracting the sources of the vmmon module. Building the vmmon module. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware/config/2861/vmmon-only' make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware/config/2861/vmmon-only' make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware/config/2861/vmmon-only/driver-2.2.13-22mdk' make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware/config/2861/vmmon-only/driver-2.2.13-22mdk' make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware/config/2861/vmmon-only/driver-2.2.13-22mdk' make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware/config/2861/vmmon-only/driver-2.2.13-22mdk' make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware/config/2861/vmmon-only' make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware/config/2861/vmmon-only' Unable to make a vmmon module that can be loaded in the running kernel. There isprobably a light difference of kernel configuration between the set of C header files you specified and your running kernel. You may want to rebuild a kernel based on that directory, or specify another directory. Execution aborted. [root@adsl-77-233-152 vmware-distrib]# As if this is not confusing enough, when I try to rpm it, here is what I get: [root@adsl-77-233-152 sher]# rpm -Uvh VMware-1.1.2-364.i386.rpm package VMware-1.1.2-364 is already installed [root@adsl-77-233-152 sher]# So, I typed vmware at the command prompt. This is what I got: [sher@adsl-77-233-152 sher]$ vmware VMware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, you must find and run "vmware-config.pl". [sher@adsl-77-233-152 sher]$ So, I went back and reran the command above and got the same question about the C header directory: [root@adsl-77-233-152 vmware]# cd vmware-distrib [root@adsl-77-233-152 vmware-distrib]# ls FILES INSTALL bin doc etc installer lib man vmware-install.pl [root@adsl-77-233-152 vmware-distrib]# cd bin [root@adsl-77-233-152 bin]# ls vmnet-bridge vmware vmware-mount.pl vmware-wizard vmnet-dhcpd vmware-config.pl vmware-ping vmnet-sniffer vmware-loop vmware-uninstall.pl [root@adsl-77-233-152 bin]# ./vmware-config.pl Making sure VMware's services are stopped. Stopping VMware services: Virtual machine monitor [ OK ] None of VMware's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for your running kernel. Doyou want this script to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes] What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] /usr/src/linux/include Extracting the sources of the vmmon module. Building the vmmon module. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware/config/3425/vmmon-only' make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware/config/3425/vmmon-only' make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware/config/3425/vmmon-only/driver-2.2.13-22mdk' make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware/config/3425/vmmon-only/driver-2.2.13-22mdk' make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware/config/3425/vmmon-only/driver-2.2.13-22mdk' make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware/config/3425/vmmon-only/driver-2.2.13-22mdk' make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware/config/3425/vmmon-only' make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware/config/3425/vmmon-only' Unable to make a vmmon module that can be loaded in the running kernel. There isprobably a light difference of kernel configuration between the set of C header files you specified and your running kernel. You may want to rebuild a kernel based on that directory, or specify another directory. Execution aborted. You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root [root@adsl-77-233-152 bin]# Would really appreciate the help of one of our Mandrake gurus on this. Thanks so very much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net