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VMWare SMP Folding

Discussion in 'bit-tech Folding Team' started by SwiftDestiny101, 27 Apr 2009.

  1. SwiftDestiny101

    SwiftDestiny101 Has a wire neatness fetish...

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    I followed the VMWare folding tutorial in this thread, and had mixed success, the player version of VMware seems a bit limited, you would expect so being free though.

    Being on a stupidly restricted uni network, making VM work online is a bit of a fight and needs tinkering which I cant really do with the diskless VM folding.

    If I used say ubuntu or mint in a VM, would I still get about ~4k PPD on my Q9400 like I do with the diskless?

    I'm jus trying to squeeze every last PPD before the chimp challenge :D
     
  2. uncle_fungus

    uncle_fungus P/T Folding@home developer

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    There or thereabouts. For maximum PPD drop the GUI after you've installed (or better still don't even install the GUI).
     
  3. SwiftDestiny101

    SwiftDestiny101 Has a wire neatness fetish...

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    Right, one last question; Do I need to run 2 instances of SMP folding in the VM, or do I need to run 2 instances of the VM with one SMP folding in each?

    Hoping I can *acquire* me a copy of VMWare workstation before all the folding kicks off :D
     
  4. cgcox1

    cgcox1 Obessed Folder! Me? Surely not!

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    The latter.
     
  5. SwiftDestiny101

    SwiftDestiny101 Has a wire neatness fetish...

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    Cheeeers fellah :)
     
  6. uncle_fungus

    uncle_fungus P/T Folding@home developer

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    VMWare Server works just fine and is free.
     

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