Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC can't detect VirtualBox installation
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Send message Joined: 7 Jul 17 Posts: 16 ![]() |
Fedora Rawhide 64-bit; both Boinc v. 7.6.22-7 and VirtualBox v. 5.1.22-1 installed from the Fedora repos. VirtualBox has its plugins installed, and I'm pretty sure I added user boinc to the virtualbox group. what else can I check? |
Send message Joined: 20 Nov 12 Posts: 801 ![]() |
What do you get if you run these two commands from command line: /usr/bin/VBoxManage --version and sudo -u boinc /usr/bin/VBoxManage --version Replace sudo with something else if Fedora doesn't use it. |
Send message Joined: 7 Jul 17 Posts: 16 ![]() |
[djspacewhale@localhost ~] $ sudo -u boinc /usr/bin/VBoxManage --version 5.1.22r115126 [djspacewhale@localhost ~] $ /usr/bin/VBoxManage --version 5.1.22r115126 |
Send message Joined: 20 Nov 12 Posts: 801 ![]() |
Those look fine. Do you not get message like "07/07/2017 23:34:52 | | VirtualBox version: 5.0.32" in logs or do you get some kind of error somewhere or what exactly is wrong? |
Send message Joined: 7 Jul 17 Posts: 16 ![]() |
it actually doesn't give any messages about vbox in the event log... |
Send message Joined: 20 Nov 12 Posts: 801 ![]() |
I don't know what the problem could be or how to fix it. There was a post in Cosmology forums where someone had to restart BOINC client ("sudo service boinc-client restart" on Ubuntu, adjust as necessary) to get VirtualBox detected. LHC recommends running BOINC not as a service but under your normal user account. Cosmology on the other hand has no such recommendation. |
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