VMWare problems/help thread

[Marvin_The_Martian]

I had all 3 vm's choke.. on a 5101

The one's on the quad now run with 1500mb, the one on the gf's rig is not running though, only has 1gb ram ( ordering new ram for me, 8gb black dragon kit, and going to move this 4x1 to her machine, all in the name of vm folding

Linux vm's FTW

[p2501]

I had all 3 vm's choke.. on a 5101

Around what percentage? Was it repeatable?

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Repeatable.. my vm's don't save checkpoints, atleast not the one my quad which I set up with the iso generator, the other one does but I killed it and haven't started it again. Just 1gb ram in that machine it's just not enough

The quad has a 2665 and that 5101 again, but I increased available ram and it seems to be going ok.. but my os is now slow with switching between apps Need MOAR ram

[p2501]

The quad has a 2665 and that 5101 again, but I increased available ram and it seems to be going ok.. but my os is now slow with switching between apps Need MOAR ram

So true, run multiple VM's and suddenly 4GB RAM is not enough anymore.
Luckily RAM is dirt cheap for months now..

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Yeah well it's still an expensive hobby for someone without a proper income

Think it's a reasonable christmas gift for myself though Looking at 99e for 8gb, going to move the 4gb to the c2d and I'll be set for a long time I think. i7 is way to expensive a platform for me anyway, the cpu's are doable but mobo's and new ddr3 will only come when they drop to levels I won't feel guilty about spending on hw atm

[Shadowtester]

I am sorry I did not get a chance to work on the VMware guide this weekend. The working part of a day on Saturday turned into all day on Saturday and 1/2 day on Sunday so by the time I took care of my requirements around the house so I can have clean clothes and such (Not Married) that killed the rest of Sunday. Its looking like I will be pretty swamped next weekend as well but I should have some time over Thanksgiving and its weekend I will have 4 days off sorry for the delay.

[DeanZ]

this is just annoying with VMWare...you have it running fine then one decides it doesn't want to play along and just stops working so only one VM is running...gar :|

hmm...although one working is still more ppd then 2 smps outside lol

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Yeah but that's like... mhm idk but I think I wanted to say something like don't run the vm unless you know it's stable, as eue's which are not caused by the wu itself hurt the project allot

That's why the wifey's pc is now not running it, just a normal windows smp with small wu's and no advanced methods

Ram is orderd though

[DeanZ]

I'm giving the 2x smp a shot with one running medium sized packets...sadly 4GB just isn't enough for 2 running large

so we'll see how this goes

[p2501]

I'm giving the 2x smp a shot with one running medium sized packets...sadly 4GB just isn't enough for 2 running large

so we'll see how this goes

Well, maybe it is enough. My VM's are still running which makes 5 days now I think. The only thing I changed is that they're without the USB option and without mem indication. I gave each one 1512MB of RAM and they seem to be fine. Even survived that 5101 which made Marvins VM choke. So maybe it's just a setup problem.

[Marvin_The_Martian]

5101 choked because they were set to 1gb or 768 then

[Shadowtester]

Anything over 1 gig of ram for the client should be ok for any folding project so 1.5 gig for each VMware appliance should be good as well.

I have suffered a major setback on creating the VMware guide I was updating my computer OS Monday and some how it went wrong and I need to do a fresh install I will not have time to do that till this weekend prior to doing the fresh install I need to save all the files off my old install so that I can recover them about 150gb of files which will have to be transferred to my NAS using nfs at about 10-12 gb/hour. I tried recovering the OS last night but all I can do is get in on the recovery console no Xserver/Desktop at least the data files are still intact so I should be able with time to recover most everything. I am going to setup the file transfer tonight which should be done by the time I get home from work on Thursday then I can download the new Ubuntu install cd and prep the drive for the install. This is really killing my folding production the loss of my GPU2 client and almost 5k ppd per day really hurts on a small folder like me. If the OS install and GPU2 client setup go good on this weekend I will try to get some of the work done on the VMware guide I have my fingers crossed that I do not run into any more problems.

[Shadowtester]

Just a Update

I had to copy all my old files off my hdd onto my NAS late last week to prepare it for the OS re-install which I completed last Thursday and Friday night. That prepared the way for me to start early Saturday with re-partitioning and formatting the partitions for the OS re-install. I started Saturday by trying the new Kubuntu 8.10 64 bit as the OS however after several hours of setting up and working with it to try to get the Nvidia drivers to work correctly and playing around some with the KDE 4 desktop I came to the conclusion that it was not the OS to use for me currently. They need to do some more development and work on KDE 4 before it will be ready for day to day use and they need to fix the problems that Ubuntu/Kubuntu 8.10 has with the Nvidia drivers its way to hit and miss getting them to work right now. I then ended up Saturday afternoon re-partitioning and formatting the new partitions again and then installing my previous OS Kubuntu 8.04 64 bit. I spent the rest the afternoon and into the wee hours of the night setting up and updating the system and got the GPU2 client going again. I spent Sunday re-installing some of my commonly used applications and setting them up so I have my system pretty much back up and running as normal now I hope to have time over the 4 day holiday weekend to get Vmware re-installed and then do a setup guide for the forum.

[p2501]

Sooo, this is going to be a little worklog. I went with Shadowtesters tip and installed Ubuntu 8.10 in a VM since the O'Reilly folding VM obviously has a partitioning problem which won't be resolved anytime soon. I got the folding working right away (Ubuntu is such a lazy install, nothing compared to NetBSD on an old iBook *shudders*). Problem is, if I copy this VM to another folder and start it up, there's no eth0. So i searched around and found that it's a problem with the MAC. VMWare is cutely assigning a new MAC to the copy, but the install inside doesn't know that of course.

So read first: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-333349.html
except, there's no iftab anymore, it's handled by udev: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=509722

reboot and viola, there's eth0 again.

What's to do now since there's now two working Vm's? Get NetBIOS and Samba working, I'll be looking into that ( http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.ph...92&postcount=7 )(never fiddled with samba? go read smb.conf and this link, it'll help very mucho. ) tomorrow so I shut them down for now. I hope this works out.

Update: Ok, NetBIOS is working out of the box with Ubuntu. I thought I needed to fiddle with dhclient.conf, but no. nmblookup returned the VM IP's correctly (if you install Ubuntu also, then I guess it works for you too. If not check if you have a working NetBIOS name with "nmblookup yourhostname"). Sooo, I just went with the most simple samba setup. After a:

apt-get install samba

I just added (watch the spaces here!):

[folding] <-- the name of your new share
path = /path/to/my/working_directory
public = yes
writeable = yes

at the end and did:

sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart.

Then I went to Fahmon and added entries, where the target writes down as the following:

\\the_hostname_you_gave_your_vm\your_share's_name

If you want _some_ security for your new samba share, you need to tell it who you're going to allow to access to it. Open smb.conf and search for:

bind interfaces only = yes

Now you need to delete the ; at the beginning of this line, also if you look above there's a line that says

interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 eth0

in front of which you need to delete the ; too. Now go above that and put in a line that's like:

hosts allow = localhost your_hosts_to_be_allowed

(example: I'll be allowing my complete home network, so for me it's
hosts allow = localhost 192.168.1.
but you can also put a list of IP's or a mask there).

Now do a

sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

again and that's it.

That's it, now your VM's Samba server will only accept IP's you defined for ALL SHARES you defined. My guess is that this is still not secure since we're doing no checks on a per user basis, but I think it'll be okay for a folding VM.

[p2501]

Okay everything works, but Fahmon seems to be misreporting this WU. Project: 2669 (Run 6, Clone 90, Gen 68) 250001 steps on 3.4GHz just 1330PPD lol.