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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hello, I am trying to install vmware server in Fedora 16. I tried to disable <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(238, 244, 249);">NMI watchdog kernel parameter. Can anybody please let me know how do it ? I followed following procedure but without success!!</span><div><br></div><div><ul type="square" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 2.25em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(238, 244, 249); list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><li class="content2" style="margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; background-color: transparent; overflow: auto; width: auto;">$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog</pre></li></ul><p class="content2" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(238, 244, 249); line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt;"> </p><p class="content2" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(238, 244, 249); line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you get a '1', then the feature is enabled and must be turned off or VMs will mysteriously crash. To turn off nmi_watchdog is different for Fedora 15 and Fedora 16:</p><p class="content2" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(238, 244, 249); line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt;"> </p><ul type="square" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 2.25em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(238, 244, 249); list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><li class="content2" style="margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;">[5] Fedora 15: Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and add “nmi_watchdog=0” to the kernel line.</li><li class="content2" style="margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;">[5] Fedora 16: Edit /etc/default/grub and add “nmi_watchdog=0” to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX. Then run:<pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; background-color: transparent; overflow: auto; width: auto;"><br># grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg”</pre><br>to rebuild the grub configuration.</li></ul><p class="content2" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(238, 244, 249); line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>Now, reboot the system and check the /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog parameter again to make sure you see a '0'.</p></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://communities.vmware.com/message/1891427" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://communities.vmware.com/message/1891427</a> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Subhas</div> </div></body>
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