= Linux Virtual Machines for use with BOINC =

= VIRTUAL MACHINES ARE TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE =

We recommend using the virtual-machine approach to building and testing on Linux (as opposed to buying separate Linux boxes, or installing Linux partitions).  We provide some Linux virtual machine images that may be useful for building and testing. These are based on [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/ Microsoft Virtual PC]. (VMWare can reportedly also run these files, though we haven't tried it).

These files are big (1 GB or so). Please download them as seldom as possible.

 * [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/vms/BOINC-Build-Compat.zip Compatibility] system. This is an old Debian system with old gcc, and recent versions of various libraries and GNU tools. Use it for [CompileApp compiling BOINC applications].
 * [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/vms/BOINC-Test-Fedora.zip Recent Fedora] distribution. Use it for testing BOINC and applications.
 * [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/vms/BOINC-Test-SUSE.zip Recent SUSE] distribution. Use it for testing BOINC and applications.
 * [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/vms/BOINC-Test-Ubuntu.zip Recent Ubuntu] distribution. Use it for testing BOINC and applications.

On all these systems, the root (or sudo) password is 'boincadm'. There is a user account 'boincadm' with password 'boincadm'; build software under this account. Change these passwords if you're concerned about security.