From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: VMware Workstation 4.0.1 cannot be installed since recompilation of VMware modules fails. Machine is a Pentium IV with 1GB RAM. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-source-2.4.21-1.1931.2.349.2.2.ent How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install VMware Workstation 4.0.1 2. Run vmware-config.pl Actual Results: Error message is being displayed: The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the same address space size as your running kernel. Expected Results: VMware modules build successfully. Additional info: [root@ghcl01 root]# rpm -q -a |fgrep kernel kernel-2.4.21-1.1931.2.349.2.2.ent kernel-utils-2.4-8.33 kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-13 kernel-source-2.4.21-1.1931.2.349.2.2.ent
that's a vmware bug not a kernel bug.