I already upgraded to 26026 before 26027 was posted and will upgrade to
this after the workshop and as soon as I fixed some other issues with
the vbox_control script. I would also like to update Linux and Mac OS to
the same version so we have the same behaviour on all Operating Systems.

Regards
Christian

Am 21.09.2013 08:53, schrieb Lammert van der Veen:
> It works:
>  
>  
> Cheers,
> Lammert
>  
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Rom Walton <mailto:[email protected]>
>     *To:* Lammert van der Veen <mailto:[email protected]> ;
>     Christian Beer <mailto:[email protected]>
>     *Cc:* David Anderson (BOINC) <mailto:[email protected]> ; Ben
>     Segal <mailto:[email protected]> ; BOINCDev Mailing List
>     <mailto:[email protected]>
>     *Sent:* Friday, September 20, 2013 5:34 PM
>     *Subject:* RE: VBoxwrapper 26026 VM-names
>
>     Okay, I've posted 26027:
>
>     x86:
>     http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/vboxwrapper_26027_windows_intelx86.zip
>
>     x64: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/vboxwrapper_26027_windows_x86_64.zip
>
>      
>
>     Christian, if you haven't already started your next round of beta
>     testing you should use this build.  It turns out using the slot id
>     was not a good idea. Vboxwrapper has some recovery logic to clean
>     up after a failed VM execution, but the logic assumes that the VM
>     names are different for each result  in a slot directory.
>
>      
>
>     ----- Rom
>
>      
>
>     *From:*Lammert van der Veen [mailto:[email protected]]
>     *Sent:* Friday, September 20, 2013 10:50 AM
>     *To:* Rom Walton
>     *Cc:* David Anderson (BOINC); Ben Segal; Christian Beer; BOINCDev
>     Mailing List
>     *Subject:* Re: VBoxwrapper 26026 VM-names
>
>      
>
>     Hi Rom,
>
>      
>
>     Everything that makes a VM-name unique is better than the
>     possibility of same names.
>
>     We've had enough headache with the default name BOINC_VM T4T
>     was/is using with the old CERN-wrapper ;)
>
>      
>
>     Theoretical you could even with 1 BOINC-instance become that 'in
>     use' boinc__slot_x situation,
>
>     when the VM wasn't cleared properly and/or still exist in
>     VirtualBox.xml, but the used slot folder is emptied for a new
>     vboxwrapper-task.
>
>      
>
>     Cheers,
>
>      
>
>     Lammert
>
>      
>
>      
>
>         ----- Original Message -----
>
>         *From:*Rom Walton <mailto:[email protected]>
>
>         *To:*Lammert van der Veen <mailto:[email protected]>
>
>         *Cc:*David Anderson (BOINC) <mailto:[email protected]> ;
>         Ben Segal <mailto:[email protected]> ; Christian Beer
>         <mailto:[email protected]> ; BOINCDev Mailing List
>         <mailto:[email protected]>
>
>         *Sent:*Friday, September 20, 2013 4:07 PM
>
>         *Subject:*RE: VBoxwrapper 26026 VM-names
>
>          
>
>         How about using the MD5 hash of the result name and using the
>         first 16 characters as part of the VM name?
>
>          
>
>         It would look something like:
>
>         boinc_A2579B43234C3456
>
>          
>
>         It will look a little random to volunteers, but it will keep
>         the names from clashing across multiple instances of BOINC
>         running on the same machine.
>
>          
>
>         ----- Rom
>
>          
>
>         *From:*Lammert van der Veen [mailto:[email protected]]
>         *Sent:* Friday, September 20, 2013 8:20 AM
>         *To:* Rom Walton
>         *Cc:* David Anderson (BOINC); Ben Segal
>         *Subject:* VBoxwrapper 26026 VM-names
>
>          
>
>         Hello Rom,
>
>          
>
>         I noticed you introduced a new way to name the VM's in the
>         newest vboxwrapper.
>
>          
>
>         - simple boinc__slot_x where x is the slot number.
>
>          
>
>         I know I'm not an average cruncher, but may attend you on the
>         following situation:
>
>          
>
>         You are able to run several BOINC clients on a host with each
>         its own BOINC data-directory
>
>         Nowadays machines has tens of threads, but in principle also
>         on a dual core it may happen.
>
>          
>
>         I had 8 T4T VM's running on an i7 2600 hyperthreaded and in
>         your chosen solution for RNA long VM-names, I (and probably
>         more vbox users) get a problem,
>
>         because now we would get same VM names like boinc__slot_0. You
>         know VirtualBox doesn't accept that.
>
>          
>
>         In my opinion RNA (Christian) should use shorter Work Unit
>         names and use the VM description field for the extreme long
>         bacteria/virus names.
>
>          
>
>         Kind regards,
>
>          
>
>         Lammert
>

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