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T1Oracle
December 14th, 2011, 07:37 AM
I installed VMWare Player 4.0.1, but when I try to run it I get a prompt that tells me "Kernel headers for version 3.0.0-14-generic were not found" and it asks me to specify the location of the headers. When I select "/usr/src/linux-headers-3.0.0-14-generic" it says:
"C header files matching your running kernel were not found. Refer to your distribution's documentation for installation instructions."

What am I supposed to do?

I searched for everything I could find about kernel headers and I installed a ton of crap I probably don't need and is still doesn't work.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
T1Oracle
December 15th, 2011, 03:08 AM
Should I just use 10.04LTS? This is costing me money not having a working machine for my business.
T1Oracle
December 16th, 2011, 07:59 PM
Well, I was really hoping at becoming proficient in VMWare but given this issue I have no choice but to switch to VirtualBox. Hopefully it runs my Vista VM.
azmyth
December 16th, 2011, 08:04 PM
It works for me. You must not have the proper headers installed. Install the linux-headers-3.0.0-14-generic package.
T1Oracle
January 5th, 2012, 03:40 PM
It works for me. You must not have the proper headers installed. Install the linux-headers-3.0.0-14-generic package.

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.0.0-14-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
linux-headers-3.0.0-14-generic is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded.


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