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JoeZeff
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Right now I'm using BOINC on Win98, but dual boot occasionally into FC 6. I'm about to migrate to Fedora 8 and would like to be able to use BOINC on both halves of my machine. Is it possible to tell the Linux client to use the same location for its work as the Windows side? (I have it mounted read/write, as it's FAT32.) If not, will the Windows version run OK under Wine? What I'm trying to do, if it's not already clear, is avoid either starting units I can't complete in time or missing out on the work time when I'm in Linux.
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Hello JoeZeff,
I understand what your trying to do but I don't think you will succeed. Windows will not run the Linux Boinc binaries. As for running Boinc under Wine...not so much. I tried this a while ago and for some reason it totally slowed my I/O of my pc and made it unusable. Why not load VirtualBox (VMWare Clone) under FC 8 and run Win 98 in a VM? Just curious, why load Win 98 at all? |
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JoeZeff
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Obviously Windows can't run the Linux version, so I wanted to try running the Windows version under Linux with Wine. As to why boot Windows at all, it's my main OS with Linux just for experimentation at present. maybe some day soon it will be the other way...
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Hi JoeZeff.
I can be more definite: the answer is no. Sorry. This is because WCG uses a technique called "homogeneous redundancy" to make science applications more tolerant of different architectures. The downside of this is that a work unit can't be transferred from one platform to another. Mind you, BOINC doesn't officially support this anyway. brinktastee has the low-down on Wine, but I can recommend using a VM. This is my preferred technique for testing. Instead of running Windows in a VM, you may want to run Linux in a VM on your Windows partition. Either way, it's not too difficult, and you can use the datadir option to share your work folder. |
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JoeZeff
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Using VM on either side just to run one program on a day-today basis would be stupid. I guess the only answer is to throw away those CPU cycles. Sigh!
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Stupid? Not really - it works surprisingly well. However, with Windows 98 your choices are limited.
It's 98 that is holding you back, not your dual boot status. Consider this just one more reason to upgrade or migrate fully to Linux. |
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JoeZeff
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Stupid? Not really - it works surprisingly well. However, with Windows 98 your choices are limited. It's 98 that is holding you back, not your dual boot status. Consider this just one more reason to upgrade or migrate fully to Linux. First, using all that computing power to run a guest OS just to run *one program* is a stupid waste. Second, I've used Win2K and XP and disliked both of them. Third, from my days in tech support, I'm a Win98 guru and prefer staying with something I'm skilled in maintaining. Fourth, I'm unemployed and broke; are you going to donate the ca$h needed to downgrade my Micro$oft OS? Fifth, sneering remarks like this aren't the way to get people to migrate to Linux, although it's a possibility I've been considering for quite some time now. Sixth, most of my software is '98, and it's my *primary OS,* and will probably stay that way for the near future. It's easy, isn't it, to throw somebody else's money at a problem? |
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Former Member
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Oh dear, I didn't intend to sneer.
Merely to warn you: support for 95 has been dropped already, and 98 won't be far behind. The number of members using 98 are vanishingly small. If you are happy with Windows 98 - then I'm happy for you, even if your opinion is entirely unique among Windows users. Personally, I find the NT line to be far more secure and reliable. If your software is all designed for Windows 98, then it, too, must be very old and fast becoming unsupported. Ten years is a very long time in computing. All I'm trying to say is this: better to make a choice soon, before a choice is forced on you against your will. |
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