I am wondering how you successfully installed Docker Desktop after upgrading to 8.2.4.

I thought I had but BOINC kept reporting errors. So I uninstalled Docker.

What is the correct installation process and where do I find it?

Thanks,
Bruce

Mark,

I'm not a Windows person (and haven't been since before I retired in 2008!), so I'm not fully up to speed regarding WSL (and specifically WSL2!), but if Windows 11 has a WSL flavour by default it ought to be able to run Linux executables provided the environment is right. There are folks at CPDN happily running Linux models on Windows; some use WSL and others use VirtualBox, but I don't think I've seen mention of Docker over there...

So it's quite possible that you are running Linux apps on Windows! Whether that was your intention is a different matter, of course :-)

As for confirming what's running at present, I don't know whether the presence of Docker will hinder doing so, but here goes nothing...

What the client tells the server about its O/S is separate from what it tells the server it can run (see below). Apart from anything else, that's how projects that support anonymous platforms are able to collect work for their hardware architecture!

The name of the executing MCM1/ARP1 binary is one way of finding out what it is actually running, but to do that you need to have a task to run :-) -- a bit tricky at the moment, it seems!

Looking in sched_request_www.worldcommunitygrid.org.xml in the boinc[-client] directory is another way to find out what's going on; here are the relevant bits of a recent request from one of my [Linux] systems (with some extra lines for "context"...).

<scheduler_request>
...
    <platform_name>x86_64-pc-linux-gnu</platform_name>
    <alt_platform>
        <name>i686-pc-linux-gnu</name>
    </alt_platform>
...
<host_info>
...
    <os_name>Linux Ubuntu</os_name>
    <os_version>Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS [6.8.0-62-generic|libc 2.39]</os_version>
...
</host_info>

Note the two possible platforms for the 64-bit (preferred) and 32-bit cases.

The stuff from host_info should reproduce exactly on WCG results pages, and, as you've discovered, it will change if you [seem to] change O/S versions; I think it will always display the values from the latest scheduler request (which might also explain some of the oddities showing up recently in that thread about Validation errors!)

Good luck resolving this to your satisfaction -- sorry I can't be of more help.

Cheers - Al.

Mark,

Not having a Windows machine to "play" on (not even a suitable old one!) I'm in no position to experiment in order to make sense out of what's going on. It's obvious that a Windows host_info section is somewhat different to that for a Linux system -- I don't think I've ever seen a distro tag :-) -- I find that section of your host_info intriguing!

Instinct says you'd need two BOINC clients, one each for Windows apps and Linux apps, but perhaps the Windows Docker-aware client can be more clever than that. However, I can't prove that one way or the other (see above about "lab equipment"). I hope that someone else who knows more about this might spot this thread and chip in; although I will probably never use it, I'd like to know how it works...

In the [unlikely?] event that I come across anything useful in my "travels" I'll post it, provided it's factual rather than speculative. But for now I'll say "good luck"...

Cheers - Al.

No.

Cheers

Mark,

Thanks for that! It's fortunate that MCM1 makes it relatively easy to check things like that for one's wingmen when compared with ARP1 or the new MAM1 Beta-test application, neither of which reports the command line string (or anything else platform-specific) in the stderr report.

There had been some comments about strange O/S mixes in some of the recent comments about ARP1; at first I speculated that it might be WSL-related (having not initially thought of Docker), so I think I'll now pop a brief post somewhere in the ARP1 universe and link it to this thread!

I still live in hope that a local Docker-on-Windows specialist might be able to shed some light on this, but that would involve them knowing there's a question out there!

Cheers - Al.