C header files matching your running kernel were not found. Refer to your distribution's documentation for installation instructions - NoH4cker - 博客园
http://www.cnblogs.com/NoH4cker/p/4840571.html
centos6 安装wmwaretools找不到kernel header - jiejnan - 博客园
http://www.cnblogs.com/jiejnan/archive/2012/06/25/2561219.html
上述两个方案比较清晰,分别针对Ubuntu和CentOS。
最终按照如下步骤:
https://blog.csdn.net/m0_38020436/article/details/80200041
yum --enablerepo=elrepo-kernel install kernel-lt -y
wget https://elrepo.org/linux/kernel/el6/x86_64/RPMS/kernel-lt-headers-4.4.172-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
wget https://elrepo.org/linux/kernel/el6/x86_64/RPMS/kernel-lt-devel-4.4.172-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh kernel-lt-headers-4.4.172-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh kernel-lt-devel-4.4.172-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
https://elrepo.org/linux/kernel/el6/x86_64/RPMS/
Centos内核升级的三种方法 - zengkefu - 博客园
http://www.cnblogs.com/zengkefu/p/5667145.html
ELRepo : kernel-ml
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml
centos7下安装vmware 出现C header files matching your running kernel were not found. - jcxch的专栏 - CSDN博客
https://blog.csdn.net/jcxch/article/details/48857741
fedora17下安装VMware(失败) - 02xiaoma - 博客园
http://www.cnblogs.com/02xiaoma/archive/2013/04/12/3016895.html
vmware c header files - CentOS
https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=55193
Linux: VMware Tools Installation Error
http://blog.secaserver.com/2011/09/linux-vmware-tools-installation-error/