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
Oracle VirtualBox Oracle GNU/Linux 7 guest install
# yum install gcc kernel-devel
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
