AMDave
05-24-2013, 12:02 PM
Migration to new BOINC wrapper
The Test4Theory project is going to migrate from the current CERN "VMwrapper" to the new "vboxwrapper" developed and supported by the official BOINC development team. After extensive debugging and beta-testing, we believe the latest vboxwrapper version 0.14 is ready for adoption. As the final step before full migration, we now encourage all volunteers (with BOINC client versions 6.12 or later, and VirtualBox versions v4.2.8 or higher) to begin using the new wrapper. To do this, click "Your account" on the T4T project home page, go to "Test4Theory preferences", select "Edit Test4Theory preferences" and check the box beside the option "Run test applications?", then press the "Update preferences" button. Your subsequent work units will use the new wrapper.Some important differences you will notice:- HEADLESS MODE: Your VM will run without a console window, but you can view its console via an RDP client by pressing the new button "Show VM Console" appearing in the BOINC manager GUI for a running Test4Theory Task. Non-Windows users can download and install a free RDP client such as CoRD for Mac OS X, or FreeRDP for Linux. The control keys Alt-Fx select the same alternative console screens as before.(NOTE: "Show VM Console" will only work after you install the VirtualBox Extension Pack for your version of VirtualBox. Remember to quit BOINC before you update VirtualBox or the Extension Pack).- GRAPHICS: Another new GUI button "Show graphics" is provided to view the graphics and log output from the VM, using any up to date browser version (including Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer 10 or Safari 6). A window of your default browser will be automatically used.- MAC SANDBOXING: Mac OS X users no longer need to run the "Mac enabling script" after updating the BOINC client.- SINGLE CPU ONLY: For the moment only single-CPU operation is supported.- VM CPU THROTTLING: This is supported via your local/global BOINC CPU preferences, not T4T project preferences.Please give any feedback using this News thread "Migration to new BOINC wrapper", or the Number crunching thread "Testing new wrapper".Thanks to all,The team
More... (http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/forum_thread.php?id=1278)
The Test4Theory project is going to migrate from the current CERN "VMwrapper" to the new "vboxwrapper" developed and supported by the official BOINC development team. After extensive debugging and beta-testing, we believe the latest vboxwrapper version 0.14 is ready for adoption. As the final step before full migration, we now encourage all volunteers (with BOINC client versions 6.12 or later, and VirtualBox versions v4.2.8 or higher) to begin using the new wrapper. To do this, click "Your account" on the T4T project home page, go to "Test4Theory preferences", select "Edit Test4Theory preferences" and check the box beside the option "Run test applications?", then press the "Update preferences" button. Your subsequent work units will use the new wrapper.Some important differences you will notice:- HEADLESS MODE: Your VM will run without a console window, but you can view its console via an RDP client by pressing the new button "Show VM Console" appearing in the BOINC manager GUI for a running Test4Theory Task. Non-Windows users can download and install a free RDP client such as CoRD for Mac OS X, or FreeRDP for Linux. The control keys Alt-Fx select the same alternative console screens as before.(NOTE: "Show VM Console" will only work after you install the VirtualBox Extension Pack for your version of VirtualBox. Remember to quit BOINC before you update VirtualBox or the Extension Pack).- GRAPHICS: Another new GUI button "Show graphics" is provided to view the graphics and log output from the VM, using any up to date browser version (including Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer 10 or Safari 6). A window of your default browser will be automatically used.- MAC SANDBOXING: Mac OS X users no longer need to run the "Mac enabling script" after updating the BOINC client.- SINGLE CPU ONLY: For the moment only single-CPU operation is supported.- VM CPU THROTTLING: This is supported via your local/global BOINC CPU preferences, not T4T project preferences.Please give any feedback using this News thread "Migration to new BOINC wrapper", or the Number crunching thread "Testing new wrapper".Thanks to all,The team
More... (http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/forum_thread.php?id=1278)