VMware on SuSE Linux 7.0: Configuration aborts with error message

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Applies to

SuSE Linux: Version 7.0
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Kernel: Version 2.2.16

Symptom:

The VMware-package, shipped with SuSE Linux 7.0, doesn't work.

While running vmware-config.pl, it tries to create it's needed modules. During this process, the following message appears:
The kernel defined by this directory of header files is multiprocessor, while
your running kernel is uniprocessor.

Cause:

The needed modules are not included in the VMware-package in the correct versions.
The kernel-sources, needed for building the correct modules are not included in the package selection of the standard installation.

Solution:

To enable the script to do it's work, the package linclude has to be removed and the package lx_suse has to be installed instead. Both packages can be found in series d Development. For installing and removing packages from your system you can use YaST/YaST2. Detailed Informations on this process can be found in your manual.

If you are using a SMP-system (a system with more than one processor) the following two commands have to be executed:

   cd /usr/src/linux
   make cloneconfig
After this, vmware-config.pl has to be run again. Now you can answer all questions, if kernel-moduls should be build, with y.
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