vmware and SMP kernel?
Benjamin Arai
benjamin at araisoft.com
Tue May 25 06:07:09 UTC 2004
What version of VMware are you using?
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 20:04, Julian Underwood wrote:
> Not exactly a Fedora question, but the software in question is running
> on FC2. I'm having a problem installing vmware 4 on my stock FC2 SMP
> kernel. The kernel running is 2.6.5-1.358SMP. The box is a shuttle
> with a 3.0ghz processor. The processor supports hyper-threading, so by
> default it boots into 2.6.5-1.358SMP. I also have the option of booting
> into plain old 2.6.5-1.358, but I never do as that is not the default
> option.
>
> I'm assuming this is all normal and fine. My problem is when installing
> vmware, I get to the question:
>
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
> running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
>
> I don't have the option of pointing it towards
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358SMP, because it doesn't exist! Just the plain
> old non-SMP kernel source is there, and vmware doesn't like it. What
> would be the easiest way to place my existing kernel source into this
> /usr/src/ folder? I've tried using synaptic to install this source, but
> the SMP source isn't available in synaptic either, just the non-SMP one.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA,
>
> Julian
>
>
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Benjamin Arai <benjamin at araisoft.com>
Araisoft Corp.
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