road-runner Posted August 31, 2009 Posted August 31, 2009 If I recall correctly 8 cores will not show up in vmware so no it probably wont work, you have to have 8 cores to make the deadline, 4 cores wont make it, some guys have already tried at the folding forum... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARandomOWL Posted August 31, 2009 Posted August 31, 2009 The free VMware only supports max. 2 cores. Although I'm not sure about paid versions. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjmagneto Posted August 31, 2009 Posted August 31, 2009 VMWare Workstation only supports 2 cores "officially" so that looks like a dead end. I read on FoldingForum about tweaking Workstation to 4 cores but that is still not going to fly considering the requirements. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjmagneto Posted September 1, 2009 Posted September 1, 2009 Update: while it's not the holy grail but I got VMWare Workstation working with 4 cores. I am also evaluating VirtualBox as it supports more cores but I've seen mixed results on other forums. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
road-runner Posted October 31, 2009 Posted October 31, 2009 Looks like they got it working in windows with vmware for those of you interested... http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=100994828 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwinC Posted October 31, 2009 Posted October 31, 2009 (edited) I may have to check this out... :thumbs-up: Edited November 1, 2009 by OwinC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
road-runner Posted November 1, 2009 Posted November 1, 2009 I got someones attention over at the folding forums, reporting suspicious activity... http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=11963 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjmagneto Posted November 1, 2009 Posted November 1, 2009 I'm just going to have to give this a try. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjmagneto Posted November 3, 2009 Posted November 3, 2009 OK, so I have VMWare Player 3.0 installed and it saw all 8 cores on my i7-920 I downloaded the Linux image from the eVGA thread that roadrunner had posted and fired it up last night. I also used the -smp 7 flag they recommended instead of 8 cores (real and virtual) available. I am also running my gtx 275 videocard as well and using stock settings for it.. So far it looks promising. With my CPU overclocked to 3.6 ghz I am getting an average frame time of 36.83 min. which looks pretty good compared to the stats posted on the folding forum. CPU usage is 90-93% but memory usage jumped to 78% which was no surprise. Not bad for a Windows PC running a Virtual Machine I think. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjmagneto Posted November 5, 2009 Posted November 5, 2009 Success! The big WU finished this morning after running about 2.5 days. Total points: 54,591 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Smith Posted November 5, 2009 Posted November 5, 2009 Hey, wait! If you use the -smp 7 flag, doesn't it mean you run it only on 7 threads? I thought these WUs could simply not run on less than 8 threads? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjmagneto Posted November 6, 2009 Posted November 6, 2009 Hey, wait! If you use the -smp 7 flag, doesn't it mean you run it only on 7 threads? I thought these WUs could simply not run on less than 8 threads? That's right! I thought that it wasn't going to fly based on the info I read on the eVGA site but I decided to give it a go and if the frame times were bad I'd up it to 8. Well it for some reason worked. Next up is play time: I'm going to set it to -smp 8 and see if the big WU client and my video card still play nice together. Then I'll take the GPU offline and see what happens performance wise. Or maybe the other way around. Regardless I think I'll only run this WU if I'm going to be away from home as I'm afraid to do anything too taxing on the system (e.g. gaming) where I might need to pause it for any significant amount of time. I'd still make the 4 day deadline but tI guess I greedy for the bonus points. For the rest of the time I'll just switch over to the regular WUs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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