LHC@home

VirtualBox 7.0.4 (released November 18 2022)
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0#v04

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

VMM: Added nested paging support for nested virtualization (Intel hosts only)
VMM: Fixed rare guru meditations with certain guests on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) (bug #21237)
VMM: Fixed possible VM process crash on Windows hosts when Hyper-V is used with certain guests (bug #21174)
VMM: Fixed Windows XP guest hang or BSOD on AMD CPUs under certain circumstances (bug #21256)
GUI: Various bugfixes for the Guest Control file manager
GUI: Added more informative file operations in the Guest Control file manager
GUI: Added an option to the global settings (the display page) to resize user interface font
GUI: Fixed a regression in new vm wizard. Selected virtual disks are no longer deleted when the wizard is cancelled (bug #21244)
GUI: Added a new menu item to the devices menu to optionally upgrade the guest additions.
VirtioSCSI: Fixed recognition of the virtio SCSI controller by the EFI firmware (bug #21200)
VirtioSCSI: Fixed hang when shutting down the VM if the virtio SCSI controller is used (bug #21144)
virtio-net: Workaround a bug in the virtio-net driver included in FreeBSD version up to 12.3 which renders the device non functional (bug #21201)
Storage: Fixed I/O errors with the VirtioSCSI controller when the host I/O cache is enabled (bug #19717)
VBoxManage: Fixed regression when 'createmedium disk --variant RawDisk' command resulted in invalid .vmdk file (bug #21125)
Main: Restored input pointing device behavior in multi-monitor VM configuration (bug #21137)
Main: Fixed progress indication during automatic Linux Guest Additions installation
Guest Control: Fixed path handling issues (bug #21095)
3D: Fixed VM process crash on macOS with 3D enabled (bug #21232)
Linux Host and Guest: General improvements in startup scripts
Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for RHEL 8.7 and 9.2 kernels (bug #21272, #21258)
Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for SLES 15.4 kernels
Linux Guest Additions: Fixed kernel modules rebuild behavior on system shutdown

In Virtualbox 7.x.x is now TPM as a parameter usable for VM and other work.

I would like to upgrade, but I'm currently on 5, since 6 didn't like Cosmology@Home. Is this sorted in 7?

I would like to upgrade, but I'm currently on 5, since 6 didn't like Cosmology@Home. Is this sorted in 7?

I don't know what your VBox V6 issue was with Cosmo, but special for you I added Cosmology@Home to my list of projects.
I'm running VirtualBox version 7.0.4
The VBox-job runs fine and came to a successful end and was validated OK, cause my total credit increased with 18.6 credits, but I can't see my result,
I can't and don't want lo login, because Cosmology@Home can't deliver secure connections (ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR).

I would like to upgrade, but I'm currently on 5, since 6 didn't like Cosmology@Home. Is this sorted in 7?

I don't know what your VBox V6 issue was with Cosmo, but special for you I added Cosmology@Home to my list of projects.
I'm running VirtualBox version 7.0.4
The VBox-job runs fine and came to a successful end and was validated OK, cause my total credit increased with 18.6 credits, but I can't see my result,
I can't and don't want lo login, because Cosmology@Home can't deliver secure connections (ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR).

Thanks.

There's something buggered with their home page, seems like they tried to add that annoying https nonsense and didn't implement it properly, the old http version works just fine - this discussion has links to the various pages in your account: http://www.cosmologyathome.org/forum_thread.php?id=7821

As for TPM, isn't that just some annoying thing to get in the way of you installing Windows 11? (Yeah I know about the Rufus bypass)

Myself and many others could not get VB6 to work with cosmology. We're all fine on 5. I shall try Cosmology with 7 now.... works perfectly :-)

Cosmology (and other projects) need to upgrade the vboxwrapper to version 26206.
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/vboxwrapper_26206_windows_x86_64.exe.zip
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/vboxwrapper_26206_x86_64-apple-darwin.zip
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/vboxwrapper_26206_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Older (Windows) versions use an old .COM interface which is known not to work reliable with vbox >= 6.x.
That interface has been removed in v26206.

ATLAS/CMS/Theory vbox from here already upgraded to v26206.


As for TPM:
Vboxwrapper ignores this option since older vbox versions don't provide it and VMs (at least from here) don't require it.

Cosmology (and other projects) need to upgrade the vboxwrapper to version 26206.
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/vboxwrapper_26206_windows_x86_64.exe.zip
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/vboxwrapper_26206_x86_64-apple-darwin.zip
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/vboxwrapper_26206_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Older (Windows) versions use an old .COM interface which is known not to work reliable with vbox >= 6.x.
That interface has been removed in v26206.

Only Cosmology that I know of didn't like 6. Strange it likes 7! And their website is very broken, and there's no admins around. It's running on auto.

This Cosmology-task ran with vboxwrapper 26206: http://www.cosmologyathome.org/result.php?resultid=70302402

This Cosmology-task ran with vboxwrapper 26206: http://www.cosmologyathome.org/result.php?resultid=70302402

Yip, all mine are working too. I guess VB put back in what was taken away previously, saving the rather absent scientists at Cosmology from sorting the problem.
http://www.cosmologyathome.org/results.php?userid=73141&offset=0&show_names=0&state=4&appid=

That's nice, I can now use the latest VB to make everything presumably more efficient? What have I gained (in Boinc projects) from having 7 instead of 5? Are they more efficient?