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I am installing vmware on CentOS 5.<br />
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While running vmware-config.pl, the server asks what is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]<br />
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I did not install the kernel from source so I do not have the source files, how do I download the source files that are needed to put in /usr/src/linux/include?<br />
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How do I know which version of the source files I need?
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I am installing vmware on CentOS 5.

While running vmware-config.pl, the server asks what is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

I did not install the kernel from source so I do not have the source files, how do I download the source files that are needed to put in /usr/src/linux/include?

How do I know which version of the source files I need?

CentOS 5 Kernel Source

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