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I am curious if I used Virtual PC 2005 to run the grid agent, would be beneficial? I have between 1-2 gigs of RAM in each workstation I have. I just don't know if anyone has installed it in a Virtual PC environment and if there is any benefits to that.
Virtual PC allows you to run a different (or same) OS within a window of the current OS. It allows me to run different OS's to test various software. It also allows me to quickly "go back" to a saved point if needed, by merely replacing a saved file. Thanks! |
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I've used VMWare before, so I have a little understanding of the MS offering. I would think as long as the file systems are seperate you should be ok.
However, note that since the client is designed to use 100% of the available cpu, you will actually be processing more slowly if you run multiple instances of the client then just 1. Virtual cpu's don't increase the real horse-power of the box and the vm software consumes cpu. Cheers! Doug |
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Former Member
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That makes sense. It wouldn't do me any good anyway since there can only be 100% of CPU usage at any given time, no matter how much RAM was installed.
 Thanks for the input. Another problem that could crop up because of this I suppose would be if I restored to a certain point, the grid task being completed at that time would begin again (or likely in the middle of it). I wouldn't want to complete the same task twice. |
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