Yea sorry ambiguous what I meant by host there. The idea is that BOINC clients are running VBoxwrapper which loads up boot2docker inside of which I run my Docker apps.
Marius On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Rom Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hosts or guests? > > > > Using VirtualBox implies that your docker application would be running > within a Linux guest. > > > > ----- Rom > > > > *From:* Marius Millea [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, June 25, 2015 4:10 PM > *To:* Rom Walton <[email protected]> > *Cc:* [email protected] > > *Subject:* Re: [boinc_dev] is there a way to persist files on the host > > > > Hi Rom, > > > > Yea, I think that's exactly what I'd need. I had started looking at the > source for vboxwrapper, but if that's something you could add officially to > BOINC then that'd be amazing, thanks! > > > > My end goal btw is to have hosts running Docker, and this would allow > persisting images between tasks. We'll see if there's any other road > blocks... > > > > Marius > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Rom Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can add another shared directory that points to a scratch area in the > project's directory. > > Would that work for you? > > ----- Rom > > > -----Original Message----- > From: boinc_dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Marius Millea > Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 2:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] is there a way to persist files on the host > > (sorry if this screws up the threading, I can't figure out how to reply to > a specific message given I receive only the digest?) > > > I see, that makes a lot of sense, thanks. I suppose a followup problem is > that this is a VBox app, which AFAIK only gets access to the mounted > shared/ folder. Is there any way around this? > > Marius > > > The easiest way is to not tell BOINC about the file - > > just create it in the project directory, and look for it there in > > subsequent jobs. > > > > The app can get the project dir from the APP_INIT_DATA: > > http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/StatusApi > > > > -- David > > > > > > On 25-Jun-2015 2:10 AM, Marius Millea wrote: > > > Suppose the result of a computation yields a large file which I > > > would > > like > > > > > > 1) to remain on host > > > 2) to be used in subsequent computations > > > 3) to not be uploaded > > > > > > I think I know how to do 1), if I have the file in the output > > > template I can add the <copy_file> flag. Is there actually any way > > > to do 2 or 3 though? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Marius > > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > > > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
