Unable to install VMware tools

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11

VMware ESXi

VMware Workstation

Situation

VMware tools will not finish installing
Error message "The path “/usr/src/linux/include” is a kernel header file directory, but it does not contain the file “linux/version.h”

Resolution

Launch YaST | Software Management and make sure kernel-source is installed
Also make sure that kernel-syms package is installed
If Step 1 and 2 has been completed or is not necessary because at some stage this has already been done but "/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl" is still complaining about missing headers, try the following and run /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl again
cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include/linux
ln -s ../generated/autoconf.h
ln -s ../generated/utsrelease.h

Cause

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