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Message 92059 - Posted: 5 Jul 2019, 6:00:33 UTC

Hi, I've got a pc using an AMD threadripper processor and I have a suspicion that the version of Virtualbox packaged with Boinc may not be optimal for it.

There were updates in the v6.06 for AMD processors, which I hope (*don't know just hope) are around being more aware of which cpus are in grouped together in the different chiplets.

Would it cause issues if I update the version of Virtualbox to the current one?

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Message 92060 - Posted: 5 Jul 2019, 6:23:20 UTC - in response to Message 92059.  

Normally no, you just want to check with the project(s) that use the VirtualBox hypervisor if the version you want to install is compatible with their science. Not all are.
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Message 92073 - Posted: 8 Jul 2019, 0:01:10 UTC - in response to Message 92060.  

OK, will leave as is - thanks
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