Hi David,
It avoids the session locking issue and requiring to updated each time
there is a new VirtualBox version. In addition, it will results in
identical behaviour across all the platforms so reduces the parameter
space for issues.
The build needs to be done with the flag COM_OFF to disable the COM
interface.
The reason why we need to maintain both is because at least RNA world
need to take things carefully. There may be unknown corner cases where a
VM is lost. This is not an issue for us but not acceptable for RNA world
but we need to discover and fixed these corner cases before they can
switch. I would be happy with only the COM_OFF version being released
from now on and RNA world can stick with the old version until they have
evaluated the new version.
Cheers,
Laurence
On 10/01/18 17:44, David Anderson wrote:
What's the COM vs. non-COM tradeoff? Why maintain both?
Also, which one does the VS project file build, and how to switch?
-- David
On 1/10/2018 6:25 AM, Laurence wrote:
Now that PR 1946 <https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1946> has been
merged, please could we have new official builds of the VBox wrapper?
This would require two builds for Windows (with and without the COM
interfaces). Is the download folder <http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/>
the official repository for these files? We can of course do the
builds ourself and provide the binaries but are not sure if that is
acceptable.
Cheers,
Laurence
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