http://www.overclock.net/overclock-net-folding-home-team/592866-now-use-4-cores-vmware-player.html I might try this when my current workunits end. mike
Cool nice find, thats basically the same mod I use on VMware Workstation to get all 4 cores working, never used to work on Player so must be a new version out or a beta If you run NotFred then people get on this because you will pop out more points running 1 x SMP-4 instance than you will with 2 x SMP - instances
Looks to be 3.0 Beta. And just as a question. The person says they use Bal3wolfs VM?? Looked for info but found very little. Is it like Notfred? or is it used with a VM Ubuntu?
Ok. Tested and confirmed. VM Player x2 (2000ppd+1900ppd) on a q6600 with 2 cores on each and both running 1920pt WU. VM Player 3.0 Beta x1 (4600ppd) 4 cores on 1920pt WU 700ppd jump. Very nice Correction 4750ppd for 4cores
A mythbusters confirmed . VM Player x2 3770.51 ppd on a q6600 VM Player 3.0 Beta x4582 ppd 800ppd increase and the pc is more responsive. Mike
Now i'm impressed you don't need to set the cores up in notepad Do it via the VMP Running 2 x GPU 8000+ ppd each 2 x Notfreds on the new version New - 4300 ppd each - 4 cores each Old - 2714 ppd each - 2 cores each and your right Mike my system is still very responsive this is looking good & well worth a try
If you just have the VMP open Not folding... Highlight your file on left and change info in settings then thats the way i did it..
Just wondering do you still have to run them in low priority mode or just leave as normal.I am trying the new VMware-player-3.0.0-203739 and I have set it 2 run on 4 cpu's per vmware as I have 2 running on this
It seems to be producing the same PPD on normal......... *fingers crossed* The first Q6600 (4600ppd) is running a 3.2 (8x400) The second Q6600 (3800ppd) is running at stock 2.4
Well your ppd seem 2 be much higher than mine there as mine is show per core 1870.21 and 2003.48 and thats on a q6700 @stock speed have you changed the memory allocation amount ?
I Have been away for a week and have arrived home to find everthing has been ticking away nicley without hiccup, this 4 core setup sounds really good, but have any issues reared their ugly heads in the last few days? If not I'm gonna have it on all by Monday. Nice find.
No issues so far. All still ticking along at the same PPD Q6600@3.2 giving 4500-5000PPD Q6600@2.4 giving 3800-4300PPD Thats with both the machines also running GPU clients aswell.
never used VM for folding before , is there an preset up notfred VM around that i could use i am ok ish with linux but do not want to get into to many config command lines that i need to type out (linux programmers need to simply there command line based programs) i never really ran SMP before found it pointless due to the lack of PPD i got from them 1200 1700 ppd QX6850 3.3ghz and PHonem II 3ghz 1000 1200 ppd, but you lot seem to be getting like above 3000PPD min in 4 thread notfred and min 2000 PPD just on dual core notfreds (per notfred 2 threads, 4000 or more 2 notfreds) (the i5 is quite inpressive getting 8800 PPD from an I5 750 {1920 workunit}) could some one just pack there VM up in an rar and send it me ? msn , skype, yahoo
Get the new vmware here http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ you need 2 register an email 1st ...dead easy then download this http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/folding.zip . Extract the folding file into a folder ie folding 1 and folding 2 if you run both ,Run the virtual machine and set it up for four cores then run each vmware I have found running 2 of them @ low priority works better than one on this machine .....Giving me around 4800-5200 now .....I am sure with a bit more playing I could get more from it