Hi,
Anybody have any experience running Seti on a virtual machine? is it possible or too much hassle for the return?
Having just spent a fair bit of time and money switching my quad core for an i7 system I am looking to utilise all the cores and GPU's but the temporary lack of AP units leaves me with a dilemma. I can run the Teamwork mod so all the cores and one GPU are busy or stick with the 6.08 client and run all three (soon four) GPU's and effectively none of the cores, OK they are feeding the GPU's but that doesn't count.
Hopefully soon either AP's will be back or Boinc will be able to allocate work to CPU and GPU concurrently.
However what I am thinking at the moment unless anybody has a better suggestion or advice is to setup a virtual machine and use some of the Cores with a new Boinc installation and preferences.
Will this work or am I being silly, comments and advice welcome.
Just tried this and not too impressed. I had naively thought all the attributes of the host machine would be available to the virtual installation ie all eight cores etc so a bit dissapointed to discover only one core available. After getting everything configured and connected to the net Boinc was estimating 5hrs and so many minutes to complete one wu so I don't think 8 cloned virtual machines churning out one wu every 5hrs or more is worth the maintenance, not with Virtual PC 2007 anyway.
Cheers, Simon.
Anybody have any experience running Seti on a virtual machine? is it possible or too much hassle for the return?
Having just spent a fair bit of time and money switching my quad core for an i7 system I am looking to utilise all the cores and GPU's but the temporary lack of AP units leaves me with a dilemma. I can run the Teamwork mod so all the cores and one GPU are busy or stick with the 6.08 client and run all three (soon four) GPU's and effectively none of the cores, OK they are feeding the GPU's but that doesn't count.
Hopefully soon either AP's will be back or Boinc will be able to allocate work to CPU and GPU concurrently.
However what I am thinking at the moment unless anybody has a better suggestion or advice is to setup a virtual machine and use some of the Cores with a new Boinc installation and preferences.
Will this work or am I being silly, comments and advice welcome.
Just tried this and not too impressed. I had naively thought all the attributes of the host machine would be available to the virtual installation ie all eight cores etc so a bit dissapointed to discover only one core available. After getting everything configured and connected to the net Boinc was estimating 5hrs and so many minutes to complete one wu so I don't think 8 cloned virtual machines churning out one wu every 5hrs or more is worth the maintenance, not with Virtual PC 2007 anyway.
Cheers, Simon.
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