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In reply to computezrmle's message of 31 Mar 2025:

This version uses vboxwrapper 26210.
Please report issues here.

Hi computezrmle,

Computer is an Apple M4 Mac mini

All LHC Theory workunits fail with this result in the event log.

Sat 18 Apr 20:10:01 2026 | LHC@home | Computation for task Theory_2922-4771610-856_0 finished
Sat 18 Apr 20:10:01 2026 | LHC@home | Output file Theory_2922-4771610-856_0_r65181496_result for task Theory_2922-4771610-856_0 absent

Latest Virtualbox and Podman are installed.
No left over VMs present in Virtualbox folder.

Hope this helps.
Cheers Glenn.

VBoxManage: error: Cannot run the machine because its platform architecture x86 is not supported on ARM
VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_PLATFORM_ARCH_NOT_SUPPORTED (0x80bb0012), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine, callee nsISupports
VBoxManage: error: Context: "LaunchVMProcess(a->session, sessionType.raw(), ComSafeArrayAsInParam(aBstrEnv), progress.asOutParam())" at line 921 of file VBoxManageMisc.cpp

VirtualBox does not emulate the CPU as well, so Mx mac is not supported for these tasks, I don't think Vbox would support CPU emulation this is complex to my understanding and the performance would be poor.

Your Docker seems to be runnign fine.

Toby Broom already mentioned that the VirtualBox app will not run on your Mx Mac (since the guest is x86_64 based).

What may run is the Theory docker app, but it reports an error since it requires /cvmfs to test whether a local CVMFS client is available.
Although running a local CVMFS would be the preferred solution I suggest to first test the following method.

Creating a subfolder directly under '/' seems to be a pain on MacOS.
See here for a possible solution and report if it works:
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome//forum_thread.php?id=6481&postid=53450

Thanks Tony,

I didn't see the messages from vbox, no more wasting time on that then!
My older Intel Mac appears to be working well with lhc.

"Your Docker seems to be runnign fine."

I got the idea podman wasn't working, I'll try and follow what computezrmle has suggested withe synthetic link.

Cheers
Glenn.

In reply to computezrmle's message of 20 Apr 2026:

Toby Broom already mentioned that the VirtualBox app will not run on your Mx Mac (since the guest is x86_64 based).

What may run is the Theory docker app, but it reports an error since it requires /cvmfs to test whether a local CVMFS client is available.
Although running a local CVMFS would be the preferred solution I suggest to first test the following method.

Creating a subfolder directly under '/' seems to be a pain on MacOS.
See here for a possible solution and report if it works:
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome//forum_thread.php?id=6481&postid=53450

Thanks computezrmle,

I'll see what I can do.