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Gentoo SMP Virtual Machine

Postby imnuts » Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:34 am

What I'm going to attempt to do is setup a virtual machine that has nearly everything already configured for someone to fold for our team in a Linux virtual machine. What it is going to be is a fully 64-bit installation of Gentoo running the linux SMP client. The system will autologin (hopefully) and also have instructions for configuration and getting the program to run automatically upon the virtual machine starting up. There will be a GNOME GUI with GDM for logging in, Firefox, and some basic tools, but that will be about it. I'm also going to try and install VMWare Tools for file sharing and other options. I chose Gentoo as it's the easiest IMO, to get streamlined, and this will hopefully only require VMWare Player to run when finished. It will be tough for me to test it as I'm running a single SMP Client for all of my folding on this system as I don't have a capable GPU, so I'll upload it for testing to my webserver by those interested and will customize it for feedback. Due to the nature of the filesize of a virtual machine, "builds" will be sporadic during testing and after it's final. I'll be sure to document updating as well. If any major changes come along (GUI/Base/F@H), I'll try to keep things up-to-date and upload new builds periodically.
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Re: Gentoo SMP Virtual Machine

Postby yeshuas » Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:38 am

Is the host going to need to be 64 bit too, or will the VM Player run under say Vista X86
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Re: Gentoo SMP Virtual Machine

Postby imnuts » Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:42 am

yeshuas wrote:Is the host going to need to be 64 bit too, or will the VM Player run under say Vista X86


I think that as long as the processor on the system is capable of 64-bit, the latest versions of VMWare are able to run it as well, though I could be wrong. I chose 64-bit just due to it being better with memory and also the Stanford page saying that the Linux SMP client is 64-bit only. If that isn't the case, I can certainly work out a 32-bit version as it will be simple to do once the first one is setup as most things will be identical between the two.
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Re: Gentoo SMP Virtual Machine

Postby yeshuas » Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:50 am

I am running 64 bit VMWare server on 2 X86 systems so yes I believe it will run on X86 I just didn't know how you were going to configure yours, but I would be interested to try it when you get done :yesnod:

The only trouble I have run into so far is getting VM Tools to install, just can't get it to go for some reason
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Re: Gentoo SMP Virtual Machine

Postby augie » Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:12 am

Excellent imnuts!!! I was going to split your other posts off of the other thread. I'll leave them there now. :) I believe there's five of us with Intel quads and I'm sure we'll all participate in alpha/beta testing, at least I know I will. :drool: I'm fairly sure resources can be made available here so that you won't have to host the file, I'm assuming here that it will be a small executable with the user requiring to grab the main stuff on their own.

LOL, it almost feels like Christmas, I'm getting more memory today to run a second VM and getting my AMD X2 rig up and running in native Ubuntu SMP! :yahoo: Well, that's the plan as it stands ATM. As I'm moving to X64 Vista at the same time, this might take me a tad longer than I expected to accomplish. :pc

Oh, VM SMP has to be run under 64 bit *nix unless you can work some magic! :notworthy :lol: Man, thanks for the effort Mark! It is really appreciated. :) BTW, I know of a good folding site where you will get a whole bunch of eager Intel based beta testers but first things first, we'll put it through the mill. :yesnod: ^*^
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Re: Gentoo SMP Virtual Machine

Postby imnuts » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:50 am

I'm going to host the full virtual machine file. ATM, it's ~2.5GB, and hosting it is no issue. I have plenty of disk space and bandwidth available and use barely any of it for site traffic.

VMWare Tools, from my experience has been a real PITA with Linux virtual machines, even one's where the settings are pre-configured. I was always able to get them to work, but could never get them to start automatically when the virtual machine powered on. I'll work on it then, and hopefully I'll have most of it done tonight after getting home from work.
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Re: Gentoo SMP Virtual Machine

Postby augie » Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:34 am

imnuts wrote:I'm going to host the full virtual machine file. ATM, it's ~2.5GB, and hosting it is no issue. I have plenty of disk space and bandwidth available and use barely any of it for site traffic.

VMWare Tools, from my experience has been a real PITA with Linux virtual machines, even one's where the settings are pre-configured. I was always able to get them to work, but could never get them to start automatically when the virtual machine powered on. I'll work on it then, and hopefully I'll have most of it done tonight after getting home from work.


So much for my assumptions of a small file! :lol: :embarrassed: ^*^
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Re: Gentoo SMP Virtual Machine

Postby BILLMCC66 » Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:59 pm

Well when you get it up and running I am in the beta pack with the others.
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Re: Gentoo SMP Virtual Machine

Postby e to the x » Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:42 am

As long as it won't screw up my install and works in W7 then I am game to help test as well. I am going to try to get folding again, now that my system is finally stable.
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Re: Gentoo SMP Virtual Machine

Postby yeshuas » Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:57 am

e to the x wrote:As long as it won't screw up my install and works in W7 then I am game to help test as well. I am going to try to get folding again, now that my system is finally stable.


I am running Windows 7 X86 and using VMWare 64 server / running a VM of Ubuntu 64 and folding a SMP client per Augie's instructions here multi-core-smp-in-vmware-1-08-installation-guide-t104869.html
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