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FAH+media center build? A while back when I first decided to try out the 2p build I had already decided to make it both a FAH+media center and am still going to move forward with this idea but I am not sure how to do this. I finally recieved my 2 AMD 6128 processors and now only need to pickup some heat sinks for them and as for the OS I am still not sure what to use is it possible to use a Linux server for fah and then build from source code xbmc off of the Linux server. Also would I be able to access the media files from my windows7 x64 , my Linux laptop and my older dlink media player? |
you can fold in a VM in Linux, and have W7x64 as base. But if the drives/folders are shared you should be able to see them from Linux also. |
I use my main rig for folding and media, but always used Windows to do so. |
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I use SageTV for my media needs, but it is no longer for sale since Google bought them. I have been trying Remote Potato recently for my Android tablet...shares media great, but does not control my tuner very well...its free give it a try. |
how about forgetting Media Center and use VLC? |
+1 VLC -1 Media center |
Lol @ VLC. Talk about a compromise. Shadowmeph, I really don't see anything difficult with what you are asking if you are familiar w/ using Linux. XBMC has solid linux releases. Then just share your hard drives for access from other machines. Not sure why you'd use a server variation of Linux though, there isn't much (if any) gain for folding@home from using it over a GUI-based version of Linux. |
how much of a difference is it using the linux_fahx64 in vm then installing an actual Linux distro and then installing fah on it. |
Not having folded in VM I cant say with certainty but I believe the difference would be very small. A good source told me he sees around a 19% improvement in frame times going win7 to VM. My personal experience is a 17-20% improvement going from win7 to native linux. Those numbers are a bit too similar to think that VM linux would be at much of a handicap. Looking forward to seeing your folding results, im curious to see how many big adv you get having 16 cores. |
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