[NTLUG:Discuss] installing vmware 1.0.10 on mandriva 2010.1

[Jay Urish]

Help,

I just did a fresh install of Mandriva 2010 and I cannot get VMS to 
install for love nor money.

No matter what I do, RPM install or tarball, I get to the point where it 
wants to compile a module against my kernel, it asks:


What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your 
running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

The directory of kernel headers (version @@VMWARE@@ UTS_RELEASE) does 
not match
your running kernel (version 2.6.33.5-server-2mnb).  Even if the module 
were to
compile successfully, it would not load into the running kernel.

uname -a yields:

Linux k9.unixwolf.net 2.6.33.5-server-2mnb #1 SMP Thu Jun 17 21:11:54 
UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

even if I point to the alleged headers at 
/usr/src/linux-2.6.33.5-server-2mnb, all I get is

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your 
running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] /usr/src/linux-2.6.33.5-server-2mnb/include

The directory of kernel headers (version @@VMWARE@@ UTS_RELEASE) does 
not match
your running kernel (version 2.6.33.5-server-2mnb).  Even if the module 
were to
compile successfully, it would not load into the running kernel.

Does anybody have any ideas what I can do to force this cow to cooperate?