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Has anyone ever folded using vmware? I currently have f@h installed on one of my computers with vmware and I'm folding on a virtual machine and on the actual machine itself. Both instances seem to be running fine. Has anyone else tried this? If you have, please tell me your experiences.

how are your frame times? I would think that would take a huge hit on the cpu and times would suffer. I rather just do two instances on my dual core

The first one has taken a hit in frames, but both should be finished by tomorrow, if i can believe what it's saying. I just started it. I'll check on it every few hours and keep you posted.

specs:
AMD 3000+
MSI neofisr2
ATI x800 pro
2 gigs of ram
audigy 2 platinum
3 - 160 hard drives
and a 480w psu in an Antec 1080 case.

Since you are using a single core, I believe you should only run one instance.

Yeah, you're right. I didn't believe it would work, but wanted to see what would happen if I gave it a try. The instance in the virtual machine is working fine, but the instance on the windows installation will finish in about a half of a year.

I'm not surprised that vmware could do it. VMware is a great product. However, the processor is unfortunately trying to handle double the load instead of a single load. Then again, you must be rather happy to see how good your processor is in handling the load. Pretty impressive to me.

Folding runs as a low priority process. I'm willing to bet that the VMWare instance is running at normal priority.... so that, in turn, gives the folding process in the VMWare a higher priority than the folding process outside VMWare.

Wow... I've never seen one saying half a year!

Update. The process in vmware is about 3/4 finished. it will be finished in the morning. The process running outside of vmware has finished about ~50 frames and has moved from 185 days to 160 days. Originally, it said 436 days, but that changed pretty quickly.

The vmware process finished and I've been given credit for it. Interesting result though. It lists the number of cpu's as 3 when I'm only folding with two machines. I half expected it, but wasn't sure.

Since the last post, the process outside of vmware finished about another 50 for so frames, but time estimate moved up to a year.

I'm letting it finish that one out for now. Has anyone tried using vmware on a duo core system?

werewolfdaddy wrote:I'm letting it finish that one out for now. Has anyone tried using vmware on a duo core system?

VMware works great on the dual-core procs. What's nice is that you can now emulate 2 virtual procs with a dual-core proc.

send me a link for VMware for linux, and I'll try it. I think adding a third instance is gonna slow my production though

dicecca112 wrote:send me a link for VMware for linux, and I'll try it. I think adding a third instance is gonna slow my production though

VMware Workstation which is what I use is not free.
http://www.vmware.com/

However, VMware Player is.
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

And VMware Server beta is free to use.
http://www.vmware.com/products/server/

downloading the serve now but on my schools connection its gonna take an hour so, I'll report back once I get it installed on how well or bad it works

How's it working for you dicecca?

never could get it to work. Linux is a pain to install things with.