linux running in virtualbox, no progress on jobs

Author	Message
Mark Send message Joined: 25 Oct 08 Posts: 2 Credit: 9,109 RAC: 0	Message 967739 - Posted: 3 Feb 2010, 0:57:33 UTC I am running sunmicro's virtualbox on an intel mac. In virtualbox I am running ubuntu 9.1.0 Everything appears to to be loaded correctly, a job from seti@ and Milkyway@ are in the cue. There shows hours of runtime under messages, however under tasks, it says 0.000% complete on the two jobs. Any help appreciated. Mark ID: 967739 ·

skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60	Message 967749 - Posted: 3 Feb 2010, 2:27:49 UTC - in response to Message 967739. virtual machines are a bad idea. the act of creating the virtual box slows down BOINC. You are better off just running BOINC on the MAc without a virtual box. It saves a lot of wasted CPU cycles. In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope ID: 967749 ·

Mark Send message Joined: 25 Oct 08 Posts: 2 Credit: 9,109 RAC: 0	Message 967771 - Posted: 3 Feb 2010, 4:04:32 UTC - in response to Message 967749. Understood. ID: 967771 ·

tullio Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1	Message 968686 - Posted: 6 Feb 2010, 12:48:17 UTC I have created a Solaris virtual machine by VirtualBox on my Linux box just as an exercise. Then I loaded the BOINC client and the SETI app by Dotsch on it. It ran just 4 times slower than on Linux using one of the two cores of my Opteron 1210. The other 4 BOINC projects I am running shared the other core by alternating on it, only AQUA@home used all of it until it ended. So I just renounced. Tullio ID: 968686 ·

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