Now, with that out of the way, you must have seen that the installer gives you the option to install VirtualBox. Didn't you read Ageless's post above, where he said: VirtualBox is an OPTION, not an automatic install. Then why was VirtualBox automatically put on my desktop when all I wanted to do was start back up with you didn't pay attention to the installer. And as far as donations go, they send one, maybe two, request emails annually, certainly not at every turn. Now I'm being asked for donations at every turn. Frustrating and really lacking in clear instructions. Here Here! I couldn't agree more with each and everything you said. (don't look at me, I'm done writing the documentation without information from the developers.) The VirtualBox page in the same Wiki has a lot more information, which will probably be added to over the coming weeks. The Release Notes that you can click to go to from the Download Page will now show a lot more information about BOINC + VirtualBox, including on which projects it is needed and why BOINC development has chosen for this method of co-op installer. As then you'll end up with "VirtualBox automatically put on your desktop". It's a simple thing of reading the windows as they come up on your screen, and not blindly click Install and Yes without reading any of the information given to you. Clicking NO here, will not install VirtualBox and only install BOINC. This window in the installer will tell you that VirtualBox is required to be installed, however, once you click Install, you'll get: ![]() If you installed BOINC 7.2.28, and you downloaded the 90MB BOINC + VirtualBox installer package, then you would've seen these two screens prior to BOINC being installed: I'll get the developers to look at the download page again, to see if we can change some more, make it easier to understand. So I just edited the Release Notes, to take all that in. Also available from the same website, allows you to just install BOINC.Īs for documentation about what it is and where to use it, you were right, there wasn't any anywhere yet. That's why there's also, still, the -just- BOINC Installer. For at a project like Seti, you don't need it. You can opt-out for the moment to install VirtualBox. First it tells you it's a requirement, to then immediately tell you it's an option. ![]() It also speeds up things when you want to run Test4Theory, then you can now install BOINC and VirtualBox in one fell swoop, without you requiring to go separately to the Oracle website and getting lost on your way to install the correct VirtualBox version. And because of a work-fetch problem that Test4Theory has with the (at this time) 'latest' versions of VirtualBox (4.2.18, 4.3.0 and 4.3.2), the included version is 4.2.16 Test4Theory is one, a couple alpha and beta projects are others. Some of the projects that run under BOINC use VirtualBox to run Scientific Linux that runs their science applications. So if you run Windows, you can at the same time run Linux, without the need to install this separately on part of a hard drive, and the need to reboot to switch between the OSes. ![]() So about the same with VirtualBox, which is a virtualization software that allows you to run operating systems such as Linux, Mac OS X, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Solaris, FreeBSD and OpenSolaris in a virtual environment inside the operating system that you run. They don't use it, but it's included in BOINC anyway. Seti is merely one of those projects, although it may not use everything that's included in BOINC or the BOINC Installer.Īs an example, projects like or Leiden Classical who do not have any GPU applications, don't have influence on which GPU flavor of the year is next supported by BOINC. Meanwhile, if Virtual Box does afford any benefit to me, how do I run SETI in it?īOINC is the framework under which a lot of projects can easily reach out to hardware users to help them out. It would (should) be useful if anyone who is connected to the adminstration team draws their attention to this post. I am quite willing to once more donate computer time to the project, but not at the expense of frustration if I have to fight the system. It is now more difficult to get information. It looks to me as if changes which have been made since I last visited BOINC/SETI have not been for the better - almost as if there is a wall of obstruction. Seti is running, but I can see no information regarding running SETI, or anything else, within it.Īdditionally, BOINC's help page, where I went prior to composing this meassage, bears the title "Live help via Skype or email", yet no email address is given. In deference to BOINC's recommendation, I downloaded Virtual Box and Seti at the same time. I uninstalled SETI a long time ago, and have just reinstalled it.
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