Re: Pentium 4 : is smp kernel mandatory ?

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On Tuesday 20 December 2005 18:36, Steven Ringwald wrote:
> Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> >> I have Pentium 4 and installed both version of kernels (standard and
> >> smp) under Fedora-4, but do I need the smp version ?
> >>
> >> Reason: I use vmware and notice that the re-compile of needed modules
> >> don't work under smp version (path errors or missing include files)
> >> but works fine with the standard kernel version. So I would like to
> >> use (and update via yum) only the standard kernel version to simplify
> >> use of vmware under new kernels.
> >>
> >> Bye,
> >> Bruno
> >
> > I am using the smp kernels on a P4 machine and am using VMware without
> > any problems. I have used Vmware versions 4, 4.5, 5 and now 5.5
> > without issues - I suspect you're doing something wrong.
>
> Bruno,
>
> Did you install the kernel-smp-devel package? It is slightly different
> than the kernel-devel package that you installed to get VmWare working
> on your uni-proc kernel.
>
> Steve

Thanks Steve.
Indeed kernel-smp-devel package wad missing on my config (only kernel-devel is 
present).

Bruno


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