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Message 79497 - Posted: 7 Jul 2017, 3:57:49 UTC

Fedora Rawhide 64-bit; both Boinc v. 7.6.22-7 and VirtualBox v. 5.1.22-1 installed from the Fedora repos. VirtualBox has its plugins installed, and I'm pretty sure I added user boinc to the virtualbox group. what else can I check?
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Message 79501 - Posted: 7 Jul 2017, 18:48:00 UTC - in response to Message 79497.  

What do you get if you run these two commands from command line:

/usr/bin/VBoxManage --version


and

sudo -u boinc /usr/bin/VBoxManage --version


Replace sudo with something else if Fedora doesn't use it.
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Message 79503 - Posted: 7 Jul 2017, 21:03:17 UTC - in response to Message 79501.   

[djspacewhale@localhost ~] $ sudo -u boinc /usr/bin/VBoxManage --version
5.1.22r115126

[djspacewhale@localhost ~] $ /usr/bin/VBoxManage --version
5.1.22r115126
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Message 79511 - Posted: 8 Jul 2017, 20:32:11 UTC - in response to Message 79503.  

Those look fine.

Do you not get message like "07/07/2017 23:34:52 | | VirtualBox version: 5.0.32" in logs or do you get some kind of error somewhere or what exactly is wrong?
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Message 79513 - Posted: 9 Jul 2017, 1:30:50 UTC - in response to Message 79511.  

it actually doesn't give any messages about vbox in the event log...
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Message 79599 - Posted: 13 Jul 2017, 20:55:42 UTC - in response to Message 79513.  

I don't know what the problem could be or how to fix it. There was a post in Cosmology forums where someone had to restart BOINC client ("sudo service boinc-client restart" on Ubuntu, adjust as necessary) to get VirtualBox detected.

LHC recommends running BOINC not as a service but under your normal user account. Cosmology on the other hand has no such recommendation.
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