Changes between Version 72 and Version 73 of VboxApps

Timestamp:

Jun 20, 2014, 6:31:08 PM (10 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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VboxApps

@@ -125 +125 @@
    [ <pf_host_port>N</pf_host_port> ]
    [ <copy_to_shared>file</copy_to_shared> ]
+   [ <trickle_trigger_file>file</trickle_trigger_file> ]
    [ <minimum_checkpoint_interval>N</minimum_checkpoint_interval> ]
 </vbox_job>
@@ -158 +159 @@
   For example, you can use to copy '''init_data.xml''' into the VM.
   This directive can be used more than once.
+ '''trickle_trigger_file''':: provides a mechanism for the VM to send trickle-up messages.
+   If a file of the given name appears in the shared directory,
+   vboxwrapper sends a [TrickleApi trickle-up message] whose variety is the filename
+   and whose contents is the contents of the file, then deletes the file.
  '''minimum_checkpoint_interval''':: minimum number of seconds before a checkpoint/snaposhot can be created.
   Defaults to 10 minutes. (v26086+)
@@ -199 +204 @@
 
 To debug what is going on within the guest VM you can use '''vboxmonitor''' which writes whatever
-is received in stdin to the VM guest log (VBox.log).  This in turn is read and rewritten to stderr.txt
-in the slot directory by '''vboxwrapper'''.
-
-To use you must either use the premade vboxmonitor or build your own.  Once on the guest VM you must
-execute setuid on it so that it runs with root permissions.
+is received in stdin to the VM guest log (VBox.log).
+This in turn is read and rewritten to stderr.txt in the slot directory by '''vboxwrapper'''.
+
+To use you must either use the premade vboxmonitor or build your own.
+Once on the guest VM you must execute setuid on it so that it runs with root permissions.
 
 Usage:
@@ -353 +358 @@
 
 '''Attention:''' If your '''boinc_app''' is a bash or perl script you may get problems when the VM is restored from a snapshot.
-To circumvent this you have to change your startup script to copy the contents of the shared/ directory to another directory 'inside' the VM and execute it there.
+To circumvent this you have to change your startup script to copy the contents of the shared/ directory
+to another directory 'inside' the VM and execute it there.
 For example:
 {{{
@@ -457 +463 @@
 ==== Cleaning the Debian VM ====
 
-First step is to remove non-critical packages that are essential ([https://wiki.debian.org/ReduceDebian source]). For Debian Squeeze 7.1 that are:
+First step is to remove non-critical packages that are essential ([https://wiki.debian.org/ReduceDebian source]).
+For Debian Squeeze 7.1 that are:
 {{{
 acpi acpid busybox eject iamerican ibritish info ispell laptop-detect logrotate manpages net-tools os-prober tasksel traceroute usbutils wamerican
@@ -463 +470 @@
 Use aptitude to also remove `linux-headers-*` packages but don't remove `dkms` or `virtualbox-guest-dkms`! Run `apt-get autoremove` after this to get rid of now unused packages. `apt-get autoclean` and `apt-get clean` should remove downloaded archives to free up space.
 
-In order to realy purge all files from previously removed packages this command is helpfull as it purges all configuration files from uninstalled packages:
+In order to really purge all files from previously removed packages this command is helpful
+as it purges all configuration files from uninstalled packages:
 {{{
 dpkg --purge `dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | cut -f1`
@@ -483 +491 @@
 ==== Updating Inittab ====
 
-To configure Linux for automatic login you'll need to install
-a different terminal handler.
+To configure Linux for automatic login you'll need to install a different terminal handler.
 mingetty works well for our purposes.
 
@@ -523 +530 @@
 vboxmanage modifyhd FILENAME.vdi --compact
 }}}
+