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2 systems (from 1 base VM image) have received the same WU

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 12:23 am
by ParrLeyne
I have 2 Win7 systems which I created from a single VM image (running on VMWare ESX 4), when I started up FAH, both systems received the same A3 WU (6021 Run 0, Clone 158, Gen 118).

Is this expected?

Re: 2 systems (from 1 base VM image) have received the same WU

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 12:31 am
by Wrish
Yes, because with the same image comes the same System ID/Machine ID. Changing either of those values in the registry and client configuration, respectively, would let you download different work units on the two systems.

Re: 2 systems (from 1 base VM image) have received the same WU

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 12:49 am
by 7im
Best solution would be to delete the System ID registry entry in the second VM, and let FAH download a new one. But what wrish said will work.

Vista puts the entry in a location like this. Win 7 may be similar, maybe not.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\PandeGroup\Folding@home

Re: 2 systems (from 1 base VM image) have received the same WU

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:18 am
by ParrLeyne
7im wrote:Best solution would be to delete the System ID registry entry in the second VM, and let FAH download a new one. But what wrish said will work.

Vista puts the entry in a location like this. Win 7 may be similar, maybe not.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\PandeGroup\Folding@home
That did the trick!

Thanks 7im and Wrish