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Send message Joined: 13 Apr 20 Posts: 10 Credit: 55,767 RAC: 0 |
I'm running Zorin 16 (Ubuntu 20) on https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/show_host_detail.php?hostid=10821595 and installed the boinc-virtualbox package which also installs virtualbox. I got computation errors for tasks other than sixtrack (as you can see, two failed theory tasks are listed for that machine). lscpu shows VT-x. I even tried with Zorin 15 before this. I finally gave up and removed virtualbox and now only keep the machine for sixtrack but I would like to know why this keeps failing virtualbox applications. Any help appreciated. |
 Send message Joined: 15 Jun 08 Posts: 2549 Credit: 255,302,495 RAC: 58,944    |
The failed tasks were Theory native tasks which don't use VirtualBox. They failed because of a missing local CVMFS client. If you want to run Theory vbox tasks you need to reinstall VirtualBox, preferably a recent version from you Linux repository. Then disable "Run native if available?" at your prefs page: https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/prefs.php?subset=project Since your computer has only 8 GB RAM it is recommended not to run ATLAS/CMS vbox (they require too much RAM). |
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Send message Joined: 13 Apr 20 Posts: 10 Credit: 55,767 RAC: 0 |
Thank you. It’s working now. |
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