Ubuntu VM Image?

Delboy

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I want to use ubuntu to get some SMP clients going in a vm image, i'm having trouble getting vmserver to work in vista x64 - does anyone have a vm image with ubuntu installed I could just use vmplayer to run?

Ta for any help.
 
To run VMWare under Vista64 I have to disable driver signing each time the PC is rebooted - press F8 and it's one of the start options.

I also had to mess around with driver signing to be able to install it in the first place though can't find the page with those details at the moment - think maybe if you do the F8 thing first it may not be an issue.

Also think this may have been sorted in v2 of VMWare server - could only see V1 when I was downloading mine
 
It is fixed in v2, although the software is a bit annoying.

I don't think Player will work because IIRC it can't assign two CPUs to one VM.
 
No issues installing, but when i click vm ware server home page I get:-

error.jpg


Something about certificates?
 
I had this - i think you need to add it to the 'trusted websites' list in IE options, and then just click cancel for any other certificate error messages you get. At least, thats what i did, and it seemed to work ok.
 
Right, after hours of mucking around i've found it only works if you install it as admin and place it on the C: drive under program files (was trying to put it on G: drive).

I've got ubuntu installed, now what? - lol.
 
You're so very close, what I do now is to share the folding directory in Ubuntu so you can monitor it from Windows - then you can close the VMWare window and the VM's will continue to run in the background. Also gets around the annoyance of trying to set up FahMon in Linux :p

This guide is pretty handy for sorting the sharing

http://www.jonathanmoeller.com/screed/?p=181


This is the info I've put at the end of my samba config file - obviously you'll want to change the username in the path and the valid users

[folding]
path = /home/rich/foldingathome
available = yes
valid users = rich
read only = yes
browsable = yes
public = yes
writable = no




edit: then put your version of the following into FahMon as the location \\rich-fold1\folding\CPU1\
where "rich-fold1" should be replaced with whatever you've set the VM machine name as, "folding" is whatever you've named the share so should match what's in the square brackets up there ^
 
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EDIT: Just seen your proposal Rich, it took me 20 minutes to write this and get screens!!!! Ta.

Well, i've hit this from another angle and managed to share the folding folder in ubuntu so windows can see it, now I can monitor both a GPU client running in vista64 and the SMP client running in UBUNTU from windows FAHMON.

So my home rig is running:-

UBUNTU SMP CLIENT (50% CPU Usage) @ 1500 PPD
WINDOWS GPU CLIENT (ATI 9750 98% usage 30% CPU Usage) @ 3500 PPD

fahmon.jpg


Is this the best use to maximise PPD or should I run two UBUNTU clients instead of the GPU client?

Thanks for the help chaps, now to get my double GPU rig setup in the office!!!
 
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Nice work! :)


I'd stick with the GPU as although ATI gets a few less points than NVidia, performance seems to be increasing all the time - also a fair few of us have had VMs dropping out on us from time to time wheras the GPU client seems fairly solid. I'm currently running 3 VMs (was 2 but then one always seems to die after a week at just the wrong time) with one SMP client in each and the GPU client forced to the next highest priority using a program called process lasso - unfortunately this ends up as "above normal" so can have an effect on normal use of the PC :o

You just have to play with it and find what's best for you and what you can put up with :p
 
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