Now Oracle @oraclecloud are providing bare-metal @NVIDIA #GPUs through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for @foldingathome #beatthevirus #curethevirus
and YOU can join in at home with Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Photon VM
Now Oracle @oraclecloud are providing bare-metal @NVIDIA #GPUs through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for @foldingathome #beatthevirus #curethevirus
and YOU can join in at home with Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Photon VM
Oracle VirtualBox™ & VMware Photon OS™
None of the VMware Photon OS™ OVA work on virtual box
instead use the VMware Photon OS™ for @foldingathome
Boot it and change root password by typing E etc as per (how to change gnu/linux root password)
You could also try the ISO
Once you get PH working it has avery clean install
$ cat /etc/passwd root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash bin:x:1:1:bin:/dev/null:/bin/false daemon:x:6:6:Daemon User:/dev/null:/bin/false messagebus:x:18:18:D-Bus Message Daemon User:/var/run/dbus:/bin/false systemd-bus-proxy:x:72:72:systemd Bus Proxy:/:/bin/false systemd-journal-gateway:x:73:73:systemd Journal Gateway:/:/bin/false systemd-journal-remote:x:74:74:systemd Journal Remote:/:/bin/false systemd-journal-upload:x:75:75:systemd Journal Upload:/:/bin/false systemd-network:x:76:76:systemd Network Management:/:/bin/false systemd-resolve:x:77:77:systemd Resolver:/:/bin/false systemd-timesync:x:78:78:systemd Time Synchronization:/:/bin/false nobody:x:65534:65533:Unprivileged User:/dev/null:/bin/false sshd:x:50:50:sshd PrivSep:/var/lib/sshd:/bin/false fahclient:x:999:100:Folding@home Client:/var/lib/fahclient:/sbin/nologin cdarra:x:1000:100::/home/cdarra:/bin/bash cdarra@vghetto-photonos [ / ]$ ls -l total 44 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 May 10 2019 bin -> usr/bin drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 22 23:04 boot drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 3480 Mar 29 09:47 dev drwxr-xr-x 42 root root 4096 Mar 29 09:55 etc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 10 2019 home lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 May 10 2019 lib -> usr/lib lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 May 10 2019 lib64 -> usr/lib drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Mar 22 22:38 lost+found lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 10 2019 media -> run/media drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 22 22:38 mnt dr-xr-xr-x 94 root root 0 Mar 29 09:47 proc drwxr-x--- 5 root root 4096 Mar 29 09:55 root drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 480 Mar 29 09:49 run lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 10 2019 sbin -> usr/sbin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 May 10 2019 srv -> var/srv dr-xr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Mar 29 09:47 sys drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 200 Mar 29 09:56 tmp drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Mar 22 22:38 usr drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Mar 22 23:02 var
Startup screenshot
to install @virtualbox #guest tools on @mx_linux gnu/linux #distro first remove the broken pre-installed virtualbox packages
# aptitude remove virtualbox-guest-x11 # aptitude remove virtualbox-guest-utils # aptitude remove virtualbox-dkms # aptitude remove virtualbox-guest-dkms
then reboot and mount virtualbox guest additions cd and run VBoxLinuxInstall
if you have oracle virtualbox and want to run a red hat 8, centos 8 or oracle linux 8 vm you will need to install kernel-devel and elfutils-libelf-devel before you run VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
# dnf install kernel-devel # dnf install elfutils-libelf-devel # ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.sh
see also
Oracle VirtualBox 6 on 64bit OS VM list only showing options for 32bit VM guests and not 64bit VMs
Oracle VirtualBox 6 should now let you build both 32 bit and 64 bit VMs
Oracle VirtualBox 6 VGA video support
VirtualBox now lets you choose between 3 video cards graphics controllers
Oracle VirtualBox 6 BIOS EFI UEFI support
Oracle VM VirtualBox includes experimental support for the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), which is a new industry standard intended to eventually replace the legacy BIOS as the primary interface for bootstrapping computers and certain system services later.
By default, Oracle VM VirtualBox uses the BIOS firmware for virtual machines. To use EFI for a given virtual machine, you can enable EFI in the machine’s Settings dialog. See Section 3.5.1, “Motherboard Tab”.
VirtualBox 6.0.4 (released January 28 2019)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
why not browse the code or contribute to @oracle @virtualbox #virtualbox #virtualisation #sysadmin #webdev
if you sign up you might even get a mention on oracle.com