AMDave
08-12-2013, 09:58 AM
Adoption of new BOINC wrapper
The Test4Theory project is now migrating from the older CERN "VMwrapper" to the new "vboxwrapper" developed and supported by the official BOINC development team. Many thanks to David Anderson, Rom Walton and Charlie Fenton for their work with us! *** Starting from today, all volunteers running BOINC client versions 7.0 or higher will receive vboxwrapper Work Units *** (Volunteers running BOINC clients 6.x or lower will still receive CERN VMwrapper Work Units, as they are not supported by vboxwrapper). We are updating the project's Web pages to support this change, and also modifying their look and feel. Some important differences you will notice with vboxwrapper compared to CERN VMwrapper: - 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. (If you have previously selected the "Run test applications" T4T preference option to help us beta-testing vboxwrapper, you can remove it at your convenience). Please give any feedback using this News thread "Adoption of new BOINC wrapper" (http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/forum_thread.php?id=1310), or the Number crunching thread "Testing new wrapper" (http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/forum_thread.php?id=1066). Thanks to all from the Test4Theory Team
More... (http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/forum_thread.php?id=1310)
The Test4Theory project is now migrating from the older CERN "VMwrapper" to the new "vboxwrapper" developed and supported by the official BOINC development team. Many thanks to David Anderson, Rom Walton and Charlie Fenton for their work with us! *** Starting from today, all volunteers running BOINC client versions 7.0 or higher will receive vboxwrapper Work Units *** (Volunteers running BOINC clients 6.x or lower will still receive CERN VMwrapper Work Units, as they are not supported by vboxwrapper). We are updating the project's Web pages to support this change, and also modifying their look and feel. Some important differences you will notice with vboxwrapper compared to CERN VMwrapper: - 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. (If you have previously selected the "Run test applications" T4T preference option to help us beta-testing vboxwrapper, you can remove it at your convenience). Please give any feedback using this News thread "Adoption of new BOINC wrapper" (http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/forum_thread.php?id=1310), or the Number crunching thread "Testing new wrapper" (http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/forum_thread.php?id=1066). Thanks to all from the Test4Theory Team
More... (http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/forum_thread.php?id=1310)