VMWare Folding Web Setup

1) Enabled VT in BIOS and install VMWare Player 3.0 with the default options. Version 3.0.1 is limited to 4-cores.
Make sure to use version 3.0 for 8-core support.

2) Download and uncompress the image. Put the file anywhere you like as long as there is at least 8GB free storage.

3) Startup VMWare Player.

4) Click Open a Virtual Machine on the right-side of the VMware window. Here is a screenshot:
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5) Go to the location where you put the image and double click on the Linux64_FAH.vmx file. In you decide to edit
the vmx file, make sure to leave the number of CPUs at 8 otherwise you will not be able to get bigadv work. Double
click on the name "Linux64_FAH" to start the virtual machine.

6) The following screenshot shows where to grab the web address from the virtual machine console highlighted in yellow.
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Enter that web address to setup the client. The following screenshot shows a base set of options to select to get up
and running with bigadv. Enter your Username and team. Enter your passkey if you plan to run bigadv. Set either 7 or
8 cores depending on your preference. The number of penguins on the top of the window indicates how many CPU
processors the virtual machine has detected.
Get a passkey here

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Click the Help button to review what the other options do. The rest of the options are optional. Click Submit and the
system will reboot automatically if you have the Reboot on Submit option checked. After reboot, the folding client will
be up and running and will begin to download a new work unit.

7) To setup folding progress monitoring via HFM.net, follow the instructions provided by the virtual machine. Here is a
screenshot as an example based on those instructions:
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