Have a server that we haven’t upgraded yet, but plan to do so soon. It is current SuSE10 with one processor, and we need to add an extra processor. It is running on ESX VM host 4.1. Is it as simple as downing the vm, adding the second processor and booting back up or is there something else that will need to be done to SuSE OS?
I read something about installing the kernel-smp module to the server to make it work. So would proper step be to add module, down the vm and add the second processor and boot back up, or down the vm, add the second processor, boot back up and install the kernel-smp module and reboot? If that is what needs to be done.
On 01/27/2014 04:14 PM, jlewter wrote:[color=blue]
I read something about installing the kernel-smp module to the server to
make it work. So would proper step be to add module, down the vm and add
the second processor and boot back up, or down the vm, add the second
processor, boot back up and install the kernel-smp module and reboot? If
that is what needs to be done.[/color]
For some reason I thought the SLES 10 kernels automatically supported smp,
at least for a couple/few processors. Based on that I’d just stop the VM,
add the processor, restart the VM and see if you get multiple processors
showing up in /proc/cpuinfo (or several other places).
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Good luck.
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