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    Re: How to setup VBox and Run Linux on your Windows System

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    For instance I have my t5500 with 4 boinc instances, 1 windows (host) 3 linux vms.
    Why 4 instances of Boinc?

    When I was playing around with Linux, I had paused Boinc on Windows while I installed Boinc on Linux and ran some WEP wu's. When the instance of Boinc on Windows resumed from it's timeout, it locked up my rig or rather slowed it down that it became unresponsive.
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    Re: How to setup VBox and Run Linux on your Windows System

    Quote Originally Posted by STMahlberg View Post
    Why 4 instances of Boinc?
    Typically you never run a VM along with boinc on windows unless you are running a GPU app under windows and other app under linux but you must make sure the % processor usage is allocated correctly between the 2. There are reasons for having multiple VMs. The biggest being some projects have a hard limit to the number of WUs it will allow you to have in progress. If you are bunkering, you fill up one VM, then the others. If the project doesn't require linux or pay any better under linux, then it's much easier to setup additional boinc clients under windows. If you have dedicated cruncher and want the option to run projects under linux, you should consider setting up a dual boot system. It's not that much more work than setting up a VM.

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    Re: How to setup VBox and Run Linux on your Windows System

    Quote Originally Posted by STMahlberg View Post
    Why 4 instances of Boinc?

    When I was playing around with Linux, I had paused Boinc on Windows while I installed Boinc on Linux and ran some WEP wu's. When the instance of Boinc on Windows resumed from it's timeout, it locked up my rig or rather slowed it down that it became unresponsive.
    The multiple instances of Linux, one it's so I can diversify what I'm running more easily if I'm running mulitple apps/projects. Also it's to dabble with different distributions. I'd like to get a mac os going some day. But mostly it's a simple and cheasy way to get goofygrid credit/hours, or for when WU limits are hit like Scole said. My setup on the 12c/24t t5500 is 3 linux vms all that use 4 threads each. So max threads they can use is half my total. It's my opinion that a lot of WCG projects pay slightly better on linux so what I would do is load up the linux vms first and then added windows threads of wcg until I felt I had the right overall load considering hyperthreading.

    It seems that virtual threads are a bit more forgiving than the host's when it comes to CPU time. Like you said locking up. If you had a 4c/8t machine and setup a VM to use 5 threads and then you turned off your hyperthreading and launched the VM i bet it would work totally fine until you overloaded it and it would just bog but probably not crash the host.

    In fact 3 of my windows hosts all have linux vms running on them. Right now since I think cosmology CAMB runs better on windows I have them all idled out just running nci. but when things change I'll often run 3threads on the Linux VM while the host runs a gpu.

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    Re: How to setup VBox and Run Linux on your Windows System

    Quote Originally Posted by MindCrime View Post
    In fact 3 of my windows hosts all have linux vms running on them. Right now since I think cosmology CAMB runs better on windows I have them all idled out just running nci. but when things change I'll often run 3threads on the Linux VM while the host runs a gpu.
    Some very cool whiz-bang abilities running separate VM's; I am intrigued.

    Quote Originally Posted by scole of TSBT View Post
    If you have dedicated cruncher and want the option to run projects under linux, you should consider setting up a dual boot system. It's not that much more work than setting up a VM.
    I've considered doing a dual boot system in the past but never followed through; I will have to revisit this.


    Currently, I'm waiting for Linux to completely install on my Server. It seems that this has been an all morning process... once again more Windows issues than anything else. Once that's done, I'll come back to my main rig and finish what I started a few days ago.
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    Re: How to setup VBox and Run Linux on your Windows System

    I mean under windows. I assume you installed the boinc w/vbox. If you installed the 32 bit version of boinc, I assume it will also be the 32 bit version of vbox

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    Re: How to setup VBox and Run Linux on your Windows System

    Quote Originally Posted by scole of TSBT View Post
    I mean under windows. I assume you installed the boinc w/vbox. If you installed the 32 bit version of boinc, I assume it will also be the 32 bit version of vbox
    Sorry. I'm running 64 bit on Windows on my server.

    When I tested Linux on my main rig, I installed the Boinc I found when I searched under the Install Manager if that's the correct term. I assume that it was 64 bit as well.
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