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I am interested in setting up Folding @ Home on a Virtual Machine. I have Hyper-V as well as VMware workstation Pro. Has anyone has success in doing so in a VM?! 

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21 minutes ago, Beorn_Bear said:

I am interested in setting up Folding @ Home on a Virtual Machine. I have Hyper-V as well as VMware workstation Pro. Has anyone has success in doing so in a VM?! 

Folding on your main PC? Why even bother with a VM..?

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I want the folding at home software setup to be separate from my main PC. I am using several VMs for Linux OS and Windows Server. I will look at the Sandbox video. Thanks.

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4 hours ago, Beorn_Bear said:

I am interested in setting up Folding @ Home on a Virtual Machine. I have Hyper-V as well as VMware workstation Pro. Has anyone has success in doing so in a VM?! 

Yup, ran it on my ESXi 6.7 host a while back. For just CPU folding it's the same as setting up a normal Windows or Linux Client. For GPU folding you will need to pass the GPU through to the vM. There's a link in my sig to getting Folding working in Ubuntu 18.04, it's pretty much the same in 20.04 but if you want to run 22.04 some things have changed. Shoot me a PM and I can send you my Build Notes. See also the remote access in my Sig unless you want to have to console into the vM.

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Definitely possible! I currently run a Proxmox host with some other services on it. My folding machine has two CPU cores assigned as well as about 2 GB RAM, with my old GTX 750Ti passed through to it!

As the other posters said, you'll have to passthrough the GPU to the VM, and that can be a pain although very doable.

Craft computing has a good video specifically on how to do it with Proxmox if you were interested in that.

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Ok. I will have to figure out how to do a GPU pass through. I use VMware Workstation Pro and Hyper-V. I will need to see which one it is easier to do the GPU passthrough. 

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On 10/16/2022 at 4:28 PM, Beorn_Bear said:

Ok. I will have to figure out how to do a GPU pass through. I use VMware Workstation Pro and Hyper-V. I will need to see which one it is easier to do the GPU passthrough. 

Have you done it?

Were you successful?

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I am still researching how to do it via VMware. I hope to set it up within the next few days. I will post my results

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Folding @ home does seems to work well in VMware Virtual Machines in WVMare workstation Pro 17. I tested Folding @ Home within a Windows 10, Windows 11 and Ubuntu virtual machines. I dedicated 16 GB RAM with 4 GB GPU passthrough. (It is possible to do up to 8 GB GPU passthrough. However, I only have a GTX 1650 super with 4 GB RAM). It is rather slow on a Raspberry Pi 3 B+.  

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