Boinc Admins are working on native support for Docker/WSL (on Windows), because:
- it's faster
- has access to gpu (VirtualBox cannot)
- easier maintenance
- portability
- smaller images
- etc

This important new function of Boinc enviroment will be introduced in Boinc 9 (the beta of this version will be, probably, released at the end of December, as admins said in the last Boinc Project Call).

It's some time that R@H do not release VirtualBox/Python wus (that are very messed up), but this feature may help A LOT

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This sounds like a good thing! Will BOINC be able to run as a service using Docker, and still access the GPU or isn't that possible?

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Will BOINC be able to run as a service using Docker, and still access the GPU or isn't that possible?

This is one of the targets of BUDA (Boinc Unified Docking App).

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This is one of the targets of BUDA (Boinc Unified Docking App).

While we are waiting for stable release of Buda, the Boinc dev team released a new version of wrapper (26210)

vboxwrapper (Mac): fix startup failure on Mac via #6016 by @davidpanderson
vboxwrapper: create the 'virtualbox home directory' in the project dir via #6018 by @davidpanderson
improve vboxwrapper network setup via #6111 by @computezrmle
setup vbox profile location via #6116 by @computezrmle
remove obsolete function launch_vboxsvc() via #6119 by @computezrmle
Cleanup 'launch_vboxsvc' associated code via #6129 by @computezrmle
Replace getcwd() with boinc_getcwd() via #6132 by @computezrmle
Remove unused files and variables via #6139 by @computezrmle

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This important new function of Boinc enviroment will be introduced in Boinc 9 (the beta of this version will be, probably, released at the end of December, as admins said in the last Boinc Project Call).

The BUDA is still in beta test, and lhc-dev started using it with "Theory" app both for Win and Linux
Seems more light than the vbox app...

https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/apps.php

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