[sage-support] Re: Using multiple cores with Sage under VMWare Player

2009-06-15 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:44 AM, James Parsonpar...@hood.edu wrote: Here's a really dumb thing you could do. (1) Make a copy of sage-vmware-* to another directory. (2) Run both vmware's at the same time. That'll definitely use both cores on your computer. Indeed! That's what I ended up

[sage-support] Re: Using multiple cores with Sage under VMWare Player

2009-06-08 Thread James Parson
You might have to use vmware workstation in order to configure the virtual machine to use more than 1 core:  http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/ It costs money, but there is an easy 1-month free trial.  You could try that in order to tell whether multiple cores will work with the virtual

[sage-support] Re: Using multiple cores with Sage under VMWare Player

2009-06-08 Thread William Stein
2009/6/8 James Parson par...@hood.edu: You might have to use vmware workstation in order to configure the virtual machine to use more than 1 core:  http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/ It costs money, but there is an easy 1-month free trial.  You could try that in order to tell whether

[sage-support] Re: Using multiple cores with Sage under VMWare Player

2009-06-08 Thread James Parson
Here's a really dumb thing you could do. (1) Make a copy of sage-vmware-* to another directory. (2) Run both vmware's at the same time. That'll definitely use both cores on your computer. Indeed! That's what I ended up doing this afternoon. I had VMWare Workstation make a clone of my

[sage-support] Re: Using multiple cores with Sage under VMWare Player

2009-06-04 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:49 AM, James Parson par...@hood.edu wrote: Dear sage-support group, Is it possible to have Sage use multiple cores when running it under VMWare Player? I have a quad-core machine running Sage via the VMWare player in Windows XP, and I have not been able to figure