Linux Virtual Machines for use with BOINC

These files are big (1 GB or so). Please download them as seldom as possible.

On all these systems, the root (or sudo) password is 'boincadm'. There is a user account 'boincadm' with password 'boincadm'; build software under this account. Change these passwords if you're concerned about security.

Virtual server

BOINC Virtual Server. Use this to create BOINC projects. It's a VMWare virtual machine; you'll need the ​VMWare player. It's a Debian 4.0 32-bit system with all the BOINC prerequisites installed, the BOINC software (not the latest version) installed and compiled. It's ready to run make_project and go.

If you want the latest BOINC software, run update_latest.sh and then configure/make. Instructions and more information is in the readme.html file on boincadm's desktop.

The passwords can be found in the file 'README-vmware-image' that is part of the zip file.

On Windows, you may need to do the following to get network access in the VM:

Start | Programs | VMware | VMware Server | Manage Virtual Networks
(Virtual Network Editor):
Host Virtual Network Mapping:
VMnet0: Bridged to an automatically chosen adapter.
VMnet8: VMware Network Adapter VMnet8
In the NAT tab: VMnet host: VMnet8

Virtual machines for building and testing apps

NOTE: THE FOLLOWING VIRTUAL MACHINES ARE TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE

These are based on ​Microsoft Virtual PC. (VMWare can reportedly also run these files, though we haven't tried it).

• Compatibility system. This is an old Debian system with old gcc, and recent versions of various libraries and GNU tools. Use it for compiling BOINC applications.
• Recent Fedora distribution. Use it for testing BOINC and applications.
• Recent SUSE distribution. Use it for testing BOINC and applications.
• Recent Ubuntu distribution. Use it for testing BOINC and applications.