David's solution is the better solution, I'll get that implemented tonight.
Good catch on the bug, your right VirtualBox requires VT-x/AMD-V support for 64-bit Guest OSs. I'll fix that too. I'm a little fuzzy on the exact details, but if I remember correctly VirtualBox throws an error when you attempt to create a shared directory on the host machine that contains the VM guest image of the VM you are modifying. I'll see if I can get the error code. ----- Rom -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jai Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 7:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] shared directory problem with vboxwrapper The more ways to share files, the better it is. And It works to use <enable_floppyio> to share init_data.xml. Also, I don't get what is the problem if we use the slot directory as shared directory? Rom, could you please tell me more details? By the way, I think there is a bug here in file vbox.cpp ( The line number: 704): if ((vm_cpu_count == "1") || (!strstr(aid.host_info.p_features, "vmx") && !strstr(aid.host_info.p_features, "svm"))) { if I start a VM with one processor and a 64bits OS, it will fail for sure, because 64bits VM requires VT support. Please check that. Cheers, Jie At 2012-08-03 06:06:44,"David Anderson" <[email protected]> wrote: >Let's add an element to the vbox config file > <copy_to_shared>filename</copy_to_shared> >telling it to copy the given file into shared/ > >For VMs that don't use shared/, we could have > <copy_to_floppyio>filename</copy_to_floppyio> >which is a generalization of <enable_floppyio> > >-- David > >On 02-Aug-2012 10:10 AM, Rom Walton wrote: > >> You can add the <enable_floppyio/> tag to the vbox config file which >> will cause the wrapper to create a floppy disk device which contains >> the contents of the init_data.xml file. >> >> You should then be able to read the floppy disk device to get the >> init_data.xml data. >_______________________________________________ >boinc_dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev >To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter >your email address. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
