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flybywire wrote:David, are you running anything else on that pc? That second client shouldn't take more than 15 minutes on 3062. Try stopping it and then restarting it. Also, are these in a VM environment?
Flying Fox wrote:I thought 3062 is a quad only project? So in this case one dual-core SMP client is fighting with the quad-core SMP client, something is gotta give?
david00214 wrote:Flying Fox wrote:I thought 3062 is a quad only project? So in this case one dual-core SMP client is fighting with the quad-core SMP client, something is gotta give?
Well that's the second time in the past 4 days I've lost 60%+ progress. I need to get the VMware going I think. I wonder why closing one SMP client cause the second client to lose its WU...
Flybywire what is my next step? I have VMWare installed, according to Trax's guide I am supposed to do this
5. Start VMware. Select "New Virtual Machine". Pick custom virtual machine configuration, then for Guest OS, select "Linux" option and pick "Ubuntu 64 bit" from the list. In general select default options, but make sure that select 2 processors, at least 400MB of RAM (500MB suggest in case the WUs get larger) and either Bridged (suggested) or NAT (if bridged doesn't work) for network type. For HD space, 4GB is minimum suggested with all space allocated but if plan to play with Linux, make it larger (and if want, can select to not allocate all space now). HD space isn't changeable, but RAM, network, CD (among other settings) are changeable.
But New Virtual Machine is not selectable for me. Instead I get this screen:
david00214 wrote:Hmm... are you an Administrative user or just regular user? I'm not entirely certain how this plays out in Vista. Someone will have to answer this.Thanks I tried your suggestion I got "Target Machine actively refused it"
david00214 wrote:Was kind of telling the mods with my sentence.How do we split the thread?
Flying Fox wrote:david00214 wrote:Was kind of telling the mods with my sentence.How do we split the thread?
Flying Fox wrote:david00214 wrote:Hmm... are you an Administrative user or just regular user? I'm not entirely certain how this plays out in Vista. Someone will have to answer this.Thanks I tried your suggestion I got "Target Machine actively refused it"
flybywire wrote:David, did you get any message regarding 'signed drivers' when you were installing VMware in Vista?
just brew it! wrote:OK, looks like VMware is a no-go on Vista then. Without the special drivers it tries to install, it isn't going to work.
Edit: Maybe this will help. (Scroll down to the last post.)
numvcpus = "2"
just brew it! wrote:OK, looks like VMware is a no-go on Vista then. Without the special drivers it tries to install, it isn't going to work.
Edit: Maybe this will help. (Scroll down to the last post.)
Flying Fox wrote:This has been mentioned in another thread, but VMware Server is supposed to be installed on a Server OS, so that's why Vista is not quite the animal that what it is expected to be installed in. In the past you can ignore it and still install, but Vista has this signed drivers problem. I think flybywire posted a couple links in another thread.
Is that VMware Server beta 2 that you have tried? I'm not sure if it works, but when I see that VMware Infrastructure web client it looks like you are doing ESX, which is yet another beast.
If you have time, you can try this for us: install the more minimalistic VMware Player, get a Ubuntu pre-built VMware image (since VMware Player cannot create VMs by default), open the .vmx file and change to:, restart and see if it boots, check if the OS recognizes 2 "CPU"s. If all that works, then you are good to go, and you can clone it by just copying the entire folder and you should then have 2 Ubuntu OSes to play with.Code: Select allnumvcpus = "2"
david00214 wrote:just brew it! wrote:OK, looks like VMware is a no-go on Vista then. Without the special drivers it tries to install, it isn't going to work.
Edit: Maybe this will help. (Scroll down to the last post.)
I tried this and it did not work. I wonder if evil Microsoft released an update that prevents this from working
Flying Fox wrote:This has been mentioned in another thread, but VMware Server is supposed to be installed on a Server OS, so that's why Vista is not quite the animal that what it is expected to be installed in. In the past you can ignore it and still install, but Vista has this signed drivers problem. I think flybywire posted a couple links in another thread.
Is that VMware Server beta 2 that you have tried? I'm not sure if it works, but when I see that VMware Infrastructure web client it looks like you are doing ESX, which is yet another beast.
If you have time, you can try this for us: install the more minimalistic VMware Player, get a Ubuntu pre-built VMware image (since VMware Player cannot create VMs by default), open the .vmx file and change to:, restart and see if it boots, check if the OS recognizes 2 "CPU"s. If all that works, then you are good to go, and you can clone it by just copying the entire folder and you should then have 2 Ubuntu OSes to play with.Code: Select allnumvcpus = "2"
david00214 wrote:VMware Player. The image you'll probably want to get is theWait maybe I get it after all. You're saying VM player is built into the link you provided. I am downlloading Ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.zip. Please let me know if that is the wrong one.
crazybus wrote:david00214 wrote:VMware Player. The image you'll probably want to get is theWait maybe I get it after all. You're saying VM player is built into the link you provided. I am downlloading Ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.zip. Please let me know if that is the wrong one.
Ubuntu-7.10-server-amd64 one since the linux SMP client requires 64-bits of goodness. In any event aren't their stickies explaining all this?
david00214 wrote:Nope, you want the AMD64 build. For all intents and purposes AMD64==EM64T==x86-64 when referring to processor architectures. The i386 is the normal 32-bit version. Your Intel processor does require VT for it to work. E6x00+ chips have it, E4x00 and less don't.crazybus wrote:david00214 wrote:VMware Player. The image you'll probably want to get is theWait maybe I get it after all. You're saying VM player is built into the link you provided. I am downlloading Ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.zip. Please let me know if that is the wrong one.
Ubuntu-7.10-server-amd64 one since the linux SMP client requires 64-bits of goodness. In any event aren't their stickies explaining all this?
I have an intel processor so do I need the i386 version?
flybywire wrote:That's still VMware server.. have you installed VMware Player yet?