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I installed kernel-headers package and VMware-tool installer still complains about not valid path for kernel header files no matter what path I put in.

/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-229.1.2.el7.x86_64/include
/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-229.1.2.el7.x86_64/kernel
/usr/include/Linux

I also tried one suggestion after searching on the internet:

ln -s 
/usr/src/kernel/$(uname -r)/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h  
/usr/src/kernel/$(uname -r)/include/linux/version.h
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this question was addressed at unix.stackexchange.com.

uname -r can give something different than where the headers are installed. for instance in my build uname -r resolves to '3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64' whereas my headers were in '/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-229.11.1.el7.x86_64'.

this should work as long as you did not try to symbolically link the entire directory...

export kernel_headers=`ls -hd /usr/src/kernels/3*`
sudo ln -s ${kernel_headers}/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h ${kernel_headers}/include/linux/version.h
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