leibold
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Re: Work folder
While it is possible to share folders between Linux and Windows on a dualboot system in general, there are two reasons this will not work with Folding@Home:
• The files in the F@H work directory are not only datafiles, but also executable programs. These executable programs (folding cores) are operating system specific which means that the windows .exe will not work on linux and vice versa.
• It gets even worse, because even the workunit data can be different. The assignment servers do know the operating system of the client and will only send workunits suitable for it. A current example are Gromacs 3.3 workunits that will only be send to linux clients since there is no windows core for those yet.
As always with computers, nothing is truly impossible if you are willing to put enough effort into it. If you are absolutely sure you want to be able to process the same workunits while running Windows and Linux than your only option is to use the Windows F@H commandline client in both operating systems. It will run normally in the Windows environment and it can be run using Wine (a kind of Windows emulation) in Linux. I have never done that (I'm running the native Linux client on my machines), but if you want to pursue this idea make sure that you create a small partition with FAT filesystem for the F@H work directory. FAT is the best option for a cross-platform read-write shared folder.
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Maxo
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join:2002-11-04
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| Thank liebold. I didn't realize the work the put out is different. I checked my windows work folder and there was no executables, but I guess that has to do with the current work it's doing.
My shared drive, that I was planning on putting work in, is a FAT32 drive.
I've got finals next week so I might not get around to trying to run the Windows command-line program in Wine too soon, but it's definitely something I'm interested in trying to do.
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