Re: [boinc_dev] New Vboxwrapper builds

2018-01-11 Thread Jacob Klein
told. From: boinc_dev <boinc_dev-boun...@ssl.berkeley.edu> on behalf of Laurence <laurence.fi...@cern.ch> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2018 5:26:59 AM To: boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu; Nikolas Giannakis Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] New Vboxwrapper buil

Re: [boinc_dev] New Vboxwrapper builds

2018-01-11 Thread Laurence
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

Re: [boinc_dev] New Vboxwrapper builds

2018-01-10 Thread David Anderson
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 has been merged, please could we have new official builds of

[boinc_dev] New Vboxwrapper builds

2018-01-10 Thread Laurence
Now that PR 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 the official