AMDave
01-16-2012, 09:56 PM
Multi-core, Headless mode and web application finally relased!
Dear all, We are really happy to announce that we have finally released the "last" new version of our wrapper with a new virtual machine. The new version finally enables all the following features:
Multi-core: the wrapper will be able to create a two core VM if you have two or more cores available for the VM. This will only work if you have the Virtualization extensions enabled in your BIOS, so if you experience problems with this feature, please check your BIOS configuration.
Headless mode: by default we will be keeping the full mode enabled, but you can change this set up for all the new work units checking your project preferences (http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/prefs.php?subset=project). If you edit the preferences you will see a new option that says: Run virtual machine in headless mode: no. Change it to true, click update in your BOINC Manager button, and restart BOINC. From that moment the VM should be running in headless mode. See the results in real time in your browser: this release finally includes the t4t-webapp that we showed you last week. The application is installed directly in the new virtual machine (version 2.4.1), so you only have to wait for the VM to load and establish connection to CERN. After that you just need to open this URL in your browser to see the results in action: http://localhost:7859. Hopefully you will be able to test a Firefox and Chrome extension pretty soon, stay tuned!
As usual, you can get the latest version canceling the running WU or waiting for the new one. Remember that if you cancel the running WU you will lose the credit. EDIT: 7.05 has been released as version 7.04 had some minor bugs. The fixes are:
Backup of VirtualBox.xml file, so you can recover your default configuration if something goes wrong.
New set up procedure to make more robust the creation of Virtual Machines. This method should improve the problems where the wrapper fails to remove the VM.
Best regards, The team!
More... (http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/forum_thread.php?id=728)
Dear all, We are really happy to announce that we have finally released the "last" new version of our wrapper with a new virtual machine. The new version finally enables all the following features:
Multi-core: the wrapper will be able to create a two core VM if you have two or more cores available for the VM. This will only work if you have the Virtualization extensions enabled in your BIOS, so if you experience problems with this feature, please check your BIOS configuration.
Headless mode: by default we will be keeping the full mode enabled, but you can change this set up for all the new work units checking your project preferences (http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/prefs.php?subset=project). If you edit the preferences you will see a new option that says: Run virtual machine in headless mode: no. Change it to true, click update in your BOINC Manager button, and restart BOINC. From that moment the VM should be running in headless mode. See the results in real time in your browser: this release finally includes the t4t-webapp that we showed you last week. The application is installed directly in the new virtual machine (version 2.4.1), so you only have to wait for the VM to load and establish connection to CERN. After that you just need to open this URL in your browser to see the results in action: http://localhost:7859. Hopefully you will be able to test a Firefox and Chrome extension pretty soon, stay tuned!
As usual, you can get the latest version canceling the running WU or waiting for the new one. Remember that if you cancel the running WU you will lose the credit. EDIT: 7.05 has been released as version 7.04 had some minor bugs. The fixes are:
Backup of VirtualBox.xml file, so you can recover your default configuration if something goes wrong.
New set up procedure to make more robust the creation of Virtual Machines. This method should improve the problems where the wrapper fails to remove the VM.
Best regards, The team!
More... (http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/forum_thread.php?id=728)