Vmware and dpad

[crispy2010]

Does running dpad on virtual xp and host vista give any boost in output? Anyone tried it? Is it considered cheating?

Just curious:beer:

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Never tried it, but it's definitely not cheating.

 

[Assimilator1]

A?

Not quite sure what you mean ,running XP from within Vista?
If so I don't see why it should give any boost, but I've not tried it.

 

[crispy2010]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
A?

Not quite sure what you mean ,running XP from within Vista?
If so I don't see why it should give any boost, but I've not tried it.

If you havnt checked out virtulization, you should. That is if your mobo supports it. This is one of the coolest things I have seen in a while. I have two monitors and one keyboard mouse, one tower. I have xp running in vista on one monitor and vista on the other. I am running dpad on both systems. I am not sure if it will help dpad or not. Is ther a way to bench and test?

 

[Assimilator1]

Ah I see.
I have no need to run Vista currently, I'll wait until they've sorted out the stack of compatibilty problems it has, maybe in 2-3yrs time
But good to know you can run your XP stuff in it via a VM:thumbsup:

And btw I can't believe you missed my 'how to benchmark DPAD' thread a while back

I'll see if I can dig it up........

Jeez the forum function is still so screwed!:roll: ,finally found my benchmarking thread here
I can't believe it was 2 yrs ago! :Q (2yrs to the day on the last post,lol),you did DPAD then anyway though didn't ya?.
Inccidently ,ignore what zbox says about running 4 instances in that thread, I don't know back then but now it certainly is faster to run 1 client/core with just 1 thread each (at least for v443d anyway, will find out soon on v444d).

Let us know what score you get.
Btw what clock speed is your Q6600 at?

 

[Shooks]

nm

 

[Crazee]

I can't imagine that you would get much if any benefit from running a CPU intensive program within a VM. The principle behind virtualization is to take many environments that do not utilize a lot of resources and put them on one box to more fully utilize the hardware. We run VMware ESX at work and we didn't virtualize our main Oracle database server because it runs with high enough CPU utilization that it really wouldn't benefit us much to virtualize it.

A project like DIMEs would benefit greatly from virtualization because it doesn't peg the CPU, it uses network and doesn't peg that either. So you could have multiple VMs doing dimes on a single box.

 

[BlackMountainCow]

That has actually been done already. A lot of the top DIMES crunchers run up to 30 (IIRC, been a while) virtual machines to probe the internet.

 

[RaySun2Be]

Originally posted by: Crazee
I can't imagine that you would get much if any benefit from running a CPU intensive program within a VM. The principle behind virtualization is to take many environments that do not utilize a lot of resources and put them on one box to more fully utilize the hardware. We run VMware ESX at work and we didn't virtualize our main Oracle database server because it runs with high enough CPU utilization that it really wouldn't benefit us much to virtualize it.

A project like DIMEs would benefit greatly from virtualization because it doesn't peg the CPU, it uses network and doesn't peg that either. So you could have multiple VMs doing dimes on a single box.

I agree. We are moving to virtualization at work, and basically consolidating some servers that don't use much resources, and the hardware is out of warranty, so instead of purchasing new hardware, we are moving them to virtualization. Many of them use SQL Server databases, but again, don't use much resources, but we aren't virtualizing the databases, we are consolidating those databases onto one physical server with enough horsepower and RAM to do the job.

I would believe that CPU intensive programs would actually be slower running in both the host and virtualized environments as they would be competing for the same CPU resources. Not that I've tested it, just based on what I've seen with our virtualization tests.

I'd say go for it, and post the results, good or not so good, here.