Re: Pentium 4 : is smp kernel mandatory ?

[Jonathan Underwood <j.underwood@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.