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?
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> Using VirtualBox implies that your docker application would be running
> within a Linux guest.
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> ----- Rom
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> *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
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> Hi Rom,
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> 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!
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> 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...
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> Marius
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> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Rom Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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
>
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