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Installing vbox on fedora30
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Send message Joined: 1 May 07 Posts: 27 Credit: 2,351,598 RAC: 825   
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Anybody tried installing the vbox on fedora 30 linux. Just wondering if additional libs are needed. For cpdn there were 3/4 additional libs needed...... but they were32 bit libs. Ta Nairb |
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I guess you mix different things. CPDN doesn't have a vbox app. Your Fedora machine reports a 64-bit Linux, hence you must install a 64-bit vbox version to run vbox apps here. This can also be seen at the apps page: https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/apps.php |
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He means that the CPDN tasks for linux require the 32 bit libraries to run (no 64 bit application available). CPDN hasn't had any Windows tasks for months now and some people have been installing linux virtual machines to run linux tasks and then you need to install the 32 bit libraries to the virtual machine (or actually for linux within the virtual machine). 
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Send message Joined: 1 May 07 Posts: 27 Credit: 2,351,598 RAC: 825
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Well the Orale/VirtualBox website says fedora 32 or fedora 33/34/35. So it looks like I dont have the kit to run this atlas stuff. I dont want to upgrade to the latest fedora because I dont know if I could get the libs for CPDN. I think fedora dropped 32bit support after fedora 30. This windoze laptop just does not have the memory to run atlas and other tasks together. There is always sixtrack. Ta Nairb |
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Send message Joined: 1 May 07 Posts: 27 Credit: 2,351,598 RAC: 825
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Well, for what it's worth...... I have a disk with fedora 32 installed. So I plugged it into a 4core I5 machine. And after a fair bit of effort managed to get vbox 6.1 installed as well. I set the application to use only 2 cpu's at once and set it off. Well sofar it's doing ok. So it looks like fedora 32 is ok to use. I know it's not a mass market, but I suspect fedora 33/34 will be ok as well. |
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Send message Joined: 1 May 07 Posts: 27 Credit: 2,351,598 RAC: 825
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For those who worry about such things I have managed to install vbox on fedora 36. Not the best solution. So I tried one of the fedora spins the LXDE one. It requires much less disk space which is great since I have a bunch of sata 40g disks. It took a fair amount of effort to get boinc to see virtualbox. A good many messages saying that vbox was not installed. Anyway after a few hours it was fixed. SO fedora 36 and vbox seem to be a winning combination. |
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