to a quit request. On older XP machines it might speed up the memory
dump to disk.
- client: Increase the quit request timeout from 10 seconds to 60 seconds for
machines running VMs and slow disk drives. It should give the VM enough
time to gracefully shutdown and not give boinc reason to kill the wrapper.
client/
app.h
samples/vboxwrapper/
vbox.cpp, .h
vboxwrapper.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=25433
before allowing another attempt to start the VM when the hypervisor
cannot allocate enough memory.
- VBOX: Print out a trace statement about the suspend/resume directive
from the vboxwrapper perspective. This in conjuction with the
BOINC API trace statements should provide a better idea with
what is going on.
samples/vboxwrapper
vboxwrapper.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=25424
temporarily exit so BOINC can reschedule it for a later time.
If the problem doesn't go away it'll just time out eventually anyway.
samples/vboxsamples/
vboxwrapper.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=25404
- VBOX: Switch to using status.suspend_request instead of status.suspend
when determining when to suspend/resume a VM. status.suspended is
now only changed when direct_process_action is set to true.
samples/vboxwrapper/
vboxwrapper.cpp
vbox.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=25394
latency issues for volunteers.
- VBOX: If the port forwarding preferred port isn't usable, try asking
the OS for one.
- VBOX: On a failure, get the VM process exit code and report it with
the rest of the stderr spew.
samples/vboxwrapper/
vbox.cpp, .h
vboxwrapper.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=25133
the server specifies 1.1 CPUs used, allocate 2 CPUs to be used
in VirtualBox.
samples/vboxwrapper
vboxwrapper.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=25119
restarts of the client software. Remote desktop stopped
working if the client software was restarted.
samples/vboxwrapper
vboxwrapper.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=25037
core client. Next commit will create an extra "VM Console"
button in the manager when detected. Volunteers will just have
to click the button to see what is going on with the VM.
api/
boinc_api.cpp, .h
samples/vboxwrapper
vbox.cpp, .h
vboxwrapper.cpp, .h
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=25035
<enable_remotedesktop/> specified in its vbox_job.xml file.
NOTE: It does require the VirtualBox extension pack, but that
is freely available on the VirtualBox download page.
samples/vboxwrapper
vbox.cpp, .h
vboxwrapper.cpp, .h
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=25034
message wasn't being written to stderr when the VM extensions
were disabled via the BIOS.
samples/vboxwrapper/
vboxwrapper.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=25010
stderr/stdout output.
- VBOX: Undo my reorg yesterday with regards to report_vm_pid and
report_net_usage.
- VBOX: Only report network usage in the status report if
aid.global_prefs.daily_xfer_limit_mb is non-zero
- VBOX: Add the VM log to the list of things reported on a start
failure. Hypervisor log suggests that it launched the VM but
it failed unexpectedly. So there might be cases where it
actually exists.
samples/vboxwrapper/
vbox.cpp
vboxwrapper.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24992
network usage.
- VBOX: For errors where an error code is specified in the output,
use that value when returning from vbm_open(). Make it easier
to track failure rates by problem type in the ops pages.
(Windows Only)
- VBOX: Try making the process of extracting the hypervisor system
log more robust, make a temp copy of it in the slot directory.
Avoid exclusive file lock issues since VboxSvc will still be
logging to it.
- VBOX: Change the session lock text to make it clearer that the
use of other VirtualBox management tools can cause a problem.
samples/vboxwrapper/
vbox.cpp, .h
vboxwrapper.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24990
log as well as the VM execution log. Maybe the hypervisor log
will tell us what is up with the virtual floppy device.
- VBOX: Don't retry commands that are expected to fail in normal use
cases. It slows down getting the VM up and running.
- VBOX: After starting the VM, use a timed loop waiting for the initial
VM state change instead of just waiting for 5 seconds. Older
machines can take longer than 5 seconds to switch from poweroff
to starting. If we hit the main poll loop in that state the wrapper
thinks we have crashed.
- VBOX: Strip carriage returns from all the vboxmanage output on
Windows.
samples/vboxwrapper/
vbox.cpp, .h
vboxwrapper.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24967
the VM extensions for the CPU have been disabled via the BIOS. This
allows the core-client to parse the response and disable future
request for multi-core VM jobs.
samples/vboxwrapper/
vboxwrapper.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24940
and disable the use of them at VM creation time. Certain actions
within VirtualBox will force enabling them at runtime and cause
an error (like SMP support) but it should reduce confusion between
volunteers and projects when a VM configuration change now causes
a class of machine that used to work suddenly stop working.
- VBOX: Add some more helpful text notes for error conditions that
the volunteer might be able to address. For instance other
hypervisors locking the VM CPU features for exclusive use.
- VBOX: If we have to dump out the VM execution log on Windows, remove
excess carriage returns from the spew.
samples/vboxwrapper/
vbox.cpp
vboxwrapper.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24907
allow applications to supply a "web graphics URL",
in which case the manager's "Show Graphics" button
opens a browser at that URL.
This typically would used for applications that
implement a web server that serves pages showing
job information in HTML.
- vboxwrapper: if <pf_guest_port> is specified in the config file,
set up port forwarding to that port
and use the above API call with URL "http://localhost:port"
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24898
is a certain class of machines where the processor supports hardware
acceleration but it is disabled in the computers BIOS. Asking the volunteer
to tweak settings in the computers BIOS isn't a good idea. We might be able
to turn it on as an advanced preference thing in the future.
samples/vboxwrapper/
vbox.cpp
vboxwrapper.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24896
treat premature events as failures. Avoids false positive results.
- VBOX: Log the VM Execution log if a premature shutdown event has happened.
- VBOX: Rename config option max_elapsed_time to job_duration. Choosing
max_elapsed_time turned out to be a bad choice in that its purpose
became intermixed with the credit issue(s).
samples/vboxwrapper/
vbox.cpp,.h
vboxwrapper.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24894
allow specification of guest port only.
Change tag to <pf_guest_port>.
Separate getting port from registering firewall rule
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24891
Apparently when the VM is removed from the VirtualBox server process
it automatically deletes the floppy image from the media registry.
- VBOX: If a VM crashes for one reason or another, append the VM execution
log file to the stderr.txt file. I believe this is what is going on with
Richard Mitnick's computer. At the very least we should be able to give
this to the VirtualBox guys.
- VBOX: Introduce a way to re-execute commands when a session lock
event is detected. A session lock event happens when a volunteer is
tweaking something about the VM while vboxwrapper is attempting to query
state information.
samples/vboxwrapper/
vbox.cpp, .h
vboxwrapper.cpp, .h
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24887
id is appended after the name instead of after the extension. Avoid problems
with the VirtualBox interface.
samples/vboxwrapper/
vbox.cpp, .h
vboxwrapper.cpp, .h
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24880
environment and they suspend/resume the VM by the VirtualBox application.
samples/vboxwrapper/
vbox.cpp, .h
vboxwrapper.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24878
for virtual hard disks.
- VBOX: Execute closemedium against the virtual floppy disks when the VM is being
deleted.
samples/vboxwrapper/
vbox.cpp
vboxwrapper.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24877
and restarted it would null out the host port information.
- VBOX: Try to make the CERN compatible datatype for FloppyIO more JSON friendly
by following the advice of issue:
https://github.com/stig/json-framework/issues/48
- VBOX: Support both the old style and new style of determining assigned threads
of execution (aka core counts). 6.12 and the early versions of 7.x support
the old style.
samples/vboxwrapper/
vbox.cpp, .h
vboxwrapper.cpp, .h
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24876
a bug that was fixed last night which prevented the wrapper from properly
reporting its checkpoint time to the CC. The lack of checkpoint information
for the job would have prevented the CC from rescheduling the job and removing
it from memory. Now it can so the extra shutdown each scheduling period
should not be needed.
samples/vboxwrapper/
vboxwrapper.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24874
vboxwrapper. Not doing so leaves the drive reference around and the VM in a
saved state. The next attempt to delete it from another instance of
vboxwrapper fails with a complaint about the old unnamed vm(all files have
been cleaned up by BOINC) being in an non-mutable state.
samples/vboxwrapper/
vbox.cpp
vboxwrapper.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24859
Some more work will be required if there is ever a need for more than
one port. But this should work for now. This should successfully
handle running multiple instances of the same job, port information is
stored in a file called "vbox_firewall.txt" which is updated for each
execution of the wrapper.
samples/vboxwrapper/
vbox.cpp, .h
vboxwrapper.cpp
win_build/
vboxwrapper.vcproj
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24843
wall clock time a VM is allowed, if exceeded shutdown gracefully and tell
BOINC that the job is finished.
samples/vboxwrapper/
vbox.cpp, .h
vboxwrapper.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24837
reduce backoff intervals somewhat
- vboxwrapper: fix buffer size typo (from Attila)
- scheduler: fix crash if using homogeneous app version,
and a WU is committed to an old or deprecated app version.
From Kevin Reed.
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24775
- VBOX: Add some suggestions to the source on how to debug VM related issues.
- VBOX: Add a quick sanity check when the enable_shared_directory option is
enabled.
samples/vboxwrapper/
vbox.cpp, .h
vboxwrapper.cpp
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24203
add a mechanism so that apps can report sub-processes
that are not descendants (e.g., virtual machines)
These processes are then counted as part of the app,
not as "non-BOINC CPU time".
This fixes a bug where processing was incorrectly suspended
because CPU usage by VM apps exceeded the "CPU usage limit" pref.
Implementation:
- the PIDs of the processes in question
are passed from app to client via shared-memory,
in the app_status channel.
A new variant of boinc_report_app_status() supports this.
- the VBox wrapper queries the PID of the VM,
and reports it in this way.
- procinfo_app() includes a new argument: a list of PIDs
that are part of the app, although not ancestrally
related to the main process.
- in the client, ACTIVE_TASK now includes a vector "other_pids".
If this is nonempty, it's passed to procinfo_app().
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24123
Current: wrapper reports frequent checkpointing to client,
but actually checkpoints only when the VM is stopped
Problem: large amounts of work would be wasted if
BOINC stops in an ungraceful way (e.g., power failure)
Solution:
Don't report frequent checkpointing.
Every CPU scheduling period (typically once/hour)
stop the VM (creating a checkpoint)
and call boinc_temporary_exit(0).
If the client wants to keep running this job,
it will start us immediately.
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24068
- change names of CPU and network-limiting functions
to express their units (always do this).
- wrapper monitors status.suspend_network
and suspends/resumes network accordingly
- wrapper sets CPU and network bandwidth limits on startup
(Rom: should this be done before run() rather than after?)
Note: App versions using this wrapper should always have
<dont_throttle/> in their version.xml,
to tell the client that the app throttles itself.
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24054
reporting incremental runtime exery x seconds of runtime.
- client: more XML parsing cleanup
- credit trickle handler: do sanity checks on CPU speed
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=24017
- vbox wrapper: on startup, rename image file to "vm_image_SLOT.vdi",
where SLOT is the slot number.
Vbox requires unique names for VM image files.
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=23930
CERN). Where possible stick with the POSIX API set and remove Windows
specific code. (Example vbm_popen).
NOTE: Not usable at the moment.
samples/vboxwrapper/cernvm
cernvmwrapper.cpp
samples/vboxwrapper/
vbox.cpp, .h
vboxwrapper.cpp
samples/vboxwrapper/
vm.cpp, .h
win_build/
vboxwrapper.vcproj
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=23458
VM has been running since the last state change, we'll use that
instead.
- vboxwrapper: provide basic stub functions for starting/stopping/
suspending/resuming a VM. Leave wrapper functionality in
vboxwrapper, and VM specific functionality in vbox_*. Ideally
only the stub functions would have to change for other VM
implementations.
samples/vboxwrapper/
vbox.cpp, .h
vbox_win.cpp
vboxwrapper.cpp
win_build/
vboxwrapper.vcproj
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=22753
API set. Use the existing wrapper as the baseline. Current
wrapper just dumps the existing VMs defined on the machine.
More to follow.
samples/vboxwrapper/mscom/
VirtualBox.h
VirtualBox.tlb
VirtualBox_i.c
samples/vboxwrapper/
vbox.h
vbox_win.cpp
vboxwrapper.cpp
win_build/
boinc.sln
vboxwrapper.vcproj
svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=22745
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