On Tuesday 26 Apr 2016 19:54:09 Gregory Woodbury wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 5:40 AM, Peter Humphrey <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Has anyone here succeeded in getting this BOINC project to run? No > > matter > > what I try, I get "task postponed 86400.000000 sec: Communication with > > VM > > Hypervisor failed." > Is the "user" boinc runs as in the vboxusers" group? > By default, boinc runs as a non-root (daemon?) user and if its group is > not in the vboxusers group, > VirtualBox will not start or run for the user. > > The recommended workaround is to run boinc as a real user (generally > "you") so that things operate properly. Additionally, the actual way that > the cernvm runs can change "just a bit" and it will upset the balance of > getting VBox to run boinc tasks.
Thanks for the reply. Yes, boinc is running as me, as shown below, and I am in the vboxusers group. Boinc is also in that group. All the files and directories under ~/boinc and ~/.VirtualBox are owned prh:prh. But I've just noticed that the files under ~/.VirtualBox are all 0600; I wonder if that's thet problem: that the boinc user can't read them. But then boinc is running as me, the owner of all the files involved. I'm going round in circles again. $ ps U prh 710 ? SNsl 4:10 /usr/bin/boinc_client --daemon --dir /home/prh/boinc --redirectio 880 ? Sl 22:23 /usr/bin/boincmgr [...] 19613 ? RN 372:47 ../../projects/www.cosmologyathome.org/camb_2.16_i686-pc-linux-gnu params.ini [...] 24897 ? SNl 0:08 ../../projects/pogs.theskynet.org_pogs/wrapper_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu_4.02 [...] 28001 ? RN 7:17 ./fit_sed 10 filters.dat observations.dat [...] -- Rgds Peter
