Linux and Win7 client with the same work directory?

[ryleybob]

Since my old computer was slowly becoming too slow for almost everything, I've built a new one over the last few days.
This computer has a dual-boot system with Windows 7 Prof. 64 and OpenSUSE 11.3 64, since I use one or the other OS depending on what I'm using it for. However, I've mostly been using Linux for some time now.
Now I want to run the SMP client on both OSs, which should ideally calculate on the same WUs.
If Windows is running, the Windows client should continue processing the WUs, and if Linux is running, the 64-bit SMP Linux client should
do the same. Is that even feasible?

The computer consists of a Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H mainboard with a X6 1090T CPU, an Alpenföhn Brocken as a CPU cooler, and two 1TB hard drives, one for each OS. The onboard card is used as the graphics card (I'm not a gamer, so there's no RAID), which takes 512MB of the 4GB of RAM, leaving 3.5GB for the operating system. I've also set up a small FAT32 partition of about 60GB on the Linux hard drive, as I suspect this would be the best way to serve as an "interface" between the two operating systems.

[onsconstan]

Not really feasible — Folding@Home work units are OS-specific. A WU started in Windows can’t continue in Linux (and vice versa) without corruption. Just run a separate client on each OS; both can use the same username and team so your total points still add up.

[outfitrepel]

The FAT32 partition idea could work for sharing results, but you’d likely need to start/stop the client manually on each OS to avoid conflicts.