![]() ![]() Well, running a VM with a fully running OS and full loaded cores does slow down the Windows environment - even if the cores are not used there is a slight sluggy behaviour. I am interested in hearing what would be the effect of that on the main host machine running the rest of the ~50 projects, and how I would go about assigning resources to the VMs to allow them to do their job without stealing way too much from everything else, including other apps running under BOINC on the host machine that create their own VMs for their WUs. ![]() ![]() Fortunately I never needed the GPU under Linux. ![]() Additionally, I never could get the GPU running under it (even with the help of my team mate), and I tried it on several versions from 10.2 up to 13.2 now. But I would not recommend that to beginners, because I think it's not easy to handle (without help). I tried several ones also, but ended up with openSuse because I had an ex-team mate which had the same OS and was an expert in it, he taught the basics to me. Since most of them are free I would advise to try every possible distribution out and see which one fits you the best. There are a lot out there and they all have different usability and difficulty as far as I know. Hard to tell what Linux distribution you should use. So I don't think I'm fit enough to teach you to get a VM running with the conditions you set here, but I hope I can give at least a few tips for it: Even though I do that for several years now (and only sporadic), my knowledge is only enough to get BOINC running on the projects I need. I would like to help, but I'm still a beginner also. Well, I'm using a VM for several projects with Linux (including WEP and BealF) from time to time, especially since some of the projects' Linux apps are better optimized than the Windows ones. If this thread results in something really useful, we could maybe have a sticky post that tells what to do to the newcomers. So, that would mean that I would run TWO VMs on each of my VM capable machines, one running Linux-only projects under my current persona, and one running Bitcoin Utopia under a new persona. I am observing on their project website that some/many of the Bitcoin Utopia applications have Linux versions. I know there are differing opinions about this, so I am not trying to start a conversation about it. As such, I wouldn't mind running it in a VM, under a different BOINC persona to collect those credits, keeping them separate from my main (i.e. I don't like how they artificially increase one's credits by the billions, but I also see the point of helping out projects monetarily. While on the subject, I also would like to run Bitcoin Utopia in a VM, but not under my BOINC-wide user account. It must include stuff like it being auto start, auto login, auto BOINC when the Windows machine boots, how to coexist with the resources of the host Windows machine as opposed to thinking that it has all the CPU/GPU/RAM/HD resources of the host machine available to it, etc. If anybody did this already, I would appreciate an excruciatingly step-by-step, totally foolproof as well as future proof (as Linux/VBox/Windows versions change) instructions. Last time I did anything with Unix was June/1990, and I don't remember any of it. But, I am TOTALLY ignorant about Linux at this point. So, I figure that it must be possible to use VBox to create virtual machines on which to run BOINC with just these two (and any future such) projects. Yet, there are other projects like and WEP-M+2 Project who are Linux only, without any Windows apps, insisting on being Linux only or not being able to create a Windows app, and it kills me that (1) They won't provide a Windows app, (2) I don't get to provide CPU/GPU time for them. A number of projects, like those from CERN, nicely create Linux machines under VBox and run their projects on my Windows machines. And, all my machines are Windows 7 or 8.1 machines (Std or Pro). All my machines capable of running virtual machines has "Oracle VM VirtualBox" installed along with BOINC. ![]()
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