[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 Parson 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

[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

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

2009-06-08 Thread William Stein
2009/6/8 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 multi

[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 > vi

[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 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 out how to