On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:57 AM, John Thomas <gmane-2006-04-16 at jt-socal.com> wrote: > Thanks for all the great stuff. > > Executive Summary: Kernel Parameters or Special Kernel for 5.2 on VMWare? > > More Details: > Is it the best practice to use the specially compiled kernels (when > available, typically here: > http://people.centos.org/~tru/kernel-vm/5/RPMS/i386/ ) or are kernel > parameters now able to achieve the same thing? > > This bug report: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189 seems to suggest > clocksource=pit and divider=10 will crash kernels and I did not see "it's > fixed" in the release notes. Right, so, if you do not need the clocksource= option, you can use the divider option. But otherwise, kernel-vm is the way to go. I trust Tru would keep providing us with the kernel-vm until the bug is fixed. Akemi