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.
TIA,
Julian
