Updated notfreds Virtual Appliance

[weedacres]

I just ran across this News note at http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/vm.html

8 November 09: Updgard to kernel 2.6.30.1 and add VM time offset of 0.

I'll be giving it a try soon.

[ArVee]

Please post and let us know!

[Russ_64]

Good stuff

Anyone tried VMware 7 or Player 3 yet?

[weedacres]

I set up the new notfreds on one of my dual core machines. I don't see any difference in performance or any other way.
I haven't tried it on a quad yet but suspect I'll see the same result.
Does any one know what kernel 2.6.30.1 should buy us folders?

Anyone tried VMware 7 or Player 3 yet?

I've been running on VM7 and tried Player 3 for grins. They both support 4 cores so if you want to run a single 4-core smp on a quad it's easy to do (you could already do this on VM Workstation 6 with a little editing). They both work fine with no apparent difference in performance compared to the earlier versions.

[weedacres]

Here's notfred's reply from TR Forums http://www.techreport.com/forums/viewto ... 21#p980321 I also asked about tear's 2.10 fix.

notfred wrote:New kernel will support more hardware (especially more recent motherboard onboard ethernet controllers), it's not really a performance change. The VM time offset of 0 should help new installs in a VM work with the correct time zone to make monitoring in FAHMon (or similar) a lot easier - may not have to enable async clocks in FAHMon.

Can you point to the fix "tear" did and I'll see if I can include it in the next version. I just upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 and it doesn't currently build (probably need to move up the glibc version) so the next version will fix the building issues.

I hope it's ok to post his quote from another forum