vmware and SMP kernel?

[Corné Beerse]

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.

The easyest way is to install a 2.4.x kernel or to update to a VMWare that is 
kernel 2.6 capable. Check the VMWare website about this.



> 
> Any ideas?

VMWare is capable of using your smp system up to the limit. Where documentation 
says it cannot do smp or it needs additional licensing to do so, it is speaking 
of providing smp to the guests.

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> TIA,
> 
> Julian
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